MEPs tell France’s new Europe minister: give us the right to decide where we meet

Over 100 MEPs have signed an open letter to the new French Europe Minister, Jean Leonetti, calling on the French government to let the European Parliament decide where it meets. The letter points out that an absolute majority of MEPs are now on the record as supporting a single seat.

Last month, France launched legal proceedings against the Parliament’s decision, on 9 March, to rationalise its calendar of meetings for 2012 and 2013 by holding two Strasbourg plenary sessions during the same week.

The letter to the French minister was sent on Bastille Day, 14 July, and is an initiative of the Brussels-Strasbourg Seat Study Group (disclaimer: I work for two of its members!)