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| The Parliament meets in Strasbourg for 12 sessions a year, and the building is unused for an estimated 307 days per year. |
The travelling circus involves many trucks transporting goods from the MEPs offices in Brussels over to Strasbourg, and then back again once the week is over. Assistants and other workers from the Parliament all relocate at a massive cost.
It seems ironic that in a news week which is dominated by the EU telling Greece to cut costs, that they can justify the cost of moving the Parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg for one week a month.
In this article taken from EUObserver in 2008, it was estimated that the travelling circus costs around €200 million per year, and has a big environmental impact with all the extra travel involved.
Further reading
The Contradiction of the EU's Strasbourg sessions
Strasbourg Carbon Cost Condemned
