01/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a press release published on 1 September 2008, British Conservative MEP Philip Bushill-Matthews called on the British prime minister Gordon Brown to seize the opportunity provided by the European Parliament's inability to meet in Strasbourg to end the travelling circus of having to travel to the city. Shuttling back and forth to Strasbourg costs £160 million year and generates a carbon footprint of more than 20,000 tonnes of CO², explained the MEP. He said...