We can't do anything about Strasbourg, commission says

MEPs have handed the European Commission a petition of more than one million signatures calling for an end to the "travelling circus" involving the Strasbourg seat of the parliament - but the EU executive has said there is very little it can do about it.

"We wanted to receive it, also out of respect for the Parliament," said a commission official, who added that Brussels will now study the petition.

But there is little else the commission can do as the official seat in Strasbourg ...