More than one million EU citizens have called for the European Parliament to abandon its second home in Strasbourg, while the European Commission has distanced itself from EU communication commissioner Margot Wallstrom's comments on Strasbourg becoming a "negative symbol of wasting money".
The online petition - oneseat.eu - reached the one million mark on Monday (18 September) after a group of MEPs, led by Swedish liberal Cecilia Malmstrom, launched the website in May this year.
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