In a judgment returned on Tuesday 2 October in case C-73/17, the judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the European Parliament may exercise some of its budgetary powers in Brussels rather than Strasbourg, if so required by imperatives connected to the proper functioning of the budgetary procedure.
In February 2017, France, supported by Luxembourg, applied to the Court to cancel acts of the European Parliament on the adoption of the general budget of the EU...