The EU should ditch the European Parliament’s costly monthly sittings in Strasbourg, MEPs said in a motion passed on Tuesday.<br /><br />The EU’s only directly-elected body also convenes in Brussels for a number of meetings.<br /><br />Four hundred and eighty-three parliamentarians backed the resolution for a single seat, whilst 141 voted against.<br /><br />British Conservative MEP Ashley MEP has long been a vocal critic of the so-called travelling circus.<br /><br />“Today’s has been a very successful day, a very good result if you are a tax payer in Europe, because this deal will save you over one billion euros over the next 7 years, and it will also save many thousand of tons of carbon dioxide,” he told reporters in the eastern French city.<br /><br />But the vote is not binding upon EU leaders The bloc’s treaties say the decision must be taken uanamously by all national governments.<br /><br />So any change needs the support of France. Yet French politicians are in no hurry to surrender this source of national pride.<br /><br />“Where should the par
