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MEPs call for Strasbourg seat to be scrapped

MEPs have petitioned EU governments, currently negotiating a new Constitution, to scrap the European Parliament's seat in Strasbourg.

A letter signed by 126 MEPs calls on member states to "reconsider the question of the seat of the European Parliament and change the Protocol on the location of seats of the institutions".

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