European Parliament president Josep Borrell is to ask EU leaders to reconsider the parliament's second seat in Strasbourg at their June summit, after political group leaders in the parliament backed the move on Thursday (11 May).
The two-seat parliamentary arrangement has been brought up several times in past member states' negotiations, last time in 2000 during the Nice treaty talks.
The initiative was taken by the head of the socialists in the parliament, Martin Schultz, last w...
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