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 ...
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