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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9169

7 April 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/2007 sessions
Controversy again between Brussels and Strasbourg - Timothy Kirkhope calls on Tony Blair to act

Strasbourg, 06/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - Wednesday's Parliamentary vote on next year's plenary sessions gave rise to the usual confrontations between supporters of Strasbourg and Brussels. To the point where British Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope said he would write to Prime Minister Tony Blair to ask him to strive for “a single seat Parliament so that taxpayers' money can be put to far better use than propping up the Alsacien economy”. It costs the taxpayer £150 million, he...

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