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Take action on Strasbourg

There’s been lots of reports about the petition to stop the absolutely ridiculous monthly trips to the Strasbourg parliament. But as we all know any decision on the future of Strasbourg has to be decided at the EU Council by an absolute majority, meaning of course that France can veto the move.

According to EU Fortress it seems that no French MEPs have signed the petition (not surprising really) but neither have Luxembourg, Slovakian, Maltese or Greek MEPs. A crying shame.

But i’m yet to be convinced that a petition is going to do anything. The only way is to take direct action and to stop visiting the Strasbourg Parliament. Every MEP, researcher, hack and hangerons who agree that the “travelling circus” is absurd must take action and stop moving to Strasbourg.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 26th, 2006 at 8:58 pm and is filed under Europe, France, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Take action on Strasbourg”

  1. Vox Polis » Blog Archive » EU meetings responsible for climate change? Says:
    October 16th, 2006 at 8:24 am

    […] Clearly this is a good argument for withdrawal from the EU (ministers won’t have to fly to Brussels) or complete integration of the EU (everything will be done in Brussels without ministers), depending on your political stance.  Maybe even getting the MEPs who are already there to do more.  On that note I wonder what the environmental damage of using Strasbourg Parliament is?! […]

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