EU politicians want Parliament to move from Strasbourg

European Parliament members have renewed calls for the legislature to be based permanently in Brussels, citing massive costs of the monthly commute to the eastern French city of Strasbourg, where the assembly formally has its seat but works only four days a month.

Leaders of the parliament’s political groups have asked parliament president Josep Borrell to raise the issue at a June EU summit in Brussels and ask prime ministers whether they intend to change the treaty that stipulates the parliament’s monthly plenary sessions take place in Strasbourg, said Neil Corlett, spokesman for the assembly’s Liberal Democratic group.