Juncker’s EU party facing mass walk out as France rebels against Strasbourg closure
A FRENCH MEP has threatened a mass walk out of the most powerful European political party if the EU closes its white elephant parliament in Strasbourg.
By REBECCA FLOOD
Express.co.uk
Thu, Jun 29, 2017
Brussels is under increasing pressure to shut up shop in Strasbourg, which costs the taxpayer £100million a year in travel costs alone.
The European Union is ridiculed for being a ‘traveling circus’, as Eurocrats, MEPs and staff are forced to make the journey from Brussels to France once a month to sit in the European Parliament.
In a bid to end the tedious and expensive practice, MEPs have drawn up a plan to close the building, and plan to use Brexit to help secure a deal.
They are planning to snatch the European Medicines Agency headquarters from London and offer it to France to try and sweeten the agreement, despite Milan and Bratislava being frontrunners for the agency.
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