Comments on: Roof falls in on the European Parliament

By: Let them eat cake! « Public Affairs 2.0

Let them eat cake! « Public Affairs 2.0 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:22:15 +0000

[...] the roof fell in on the Strasbourg Parliament building over the summer, MEPs supporting the one seat campaign have staged a hard hat event to [...]

By: Anders Ekberg

Anders Ekberg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:26:28 +0000

Manu

You forgot to say that over the years, the city of Strasbourg has been skinning of the top op the rent. That is why the price seems low.

Everyone knows that the arguments for keeping Strasbourg are weak, to say the least.

Next week, the MEPs can finally have a session where they are supposed to take place…

By: Emmanuel Vallens

Emmanuel Vallens — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:24:39 +0000

@Valery:

hang on a minute:

you forget to say that the owner of the Parliament’s buildings (the SERS) sold them to the city of Strasbourg in 2003 for 101 million euro, which in turn sold the buildings to the Parliament in 2004 for… 72 million euro! That means that the City of Strasbourg lost 29 million euro in the transaction!!!!

But obviously, you need to distort the truth (or at least refer to PART of the truth only) in order to find convincing arguments against the seat of the European Parliament.

Which probably tells a lot about the whole Brussels-centralisation enterprise…

By: valery

valery — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:32:55 +0000

From the BBC news article : “The mayor of Strasbourg has said the extra payment is a form of insurance, in case the European Parliament should ever move away from the city.”

This is priceless : they actually want to make the EP pay because many of its members are actually willing to save some money from being wasted. How is this an argument for Strasbourg ?

@quarsan : the problem is there is absolutely no way to deal with the issue of the petition as long as the rule of unanimity is maintained within the treaties. To expect every member state to agree on some decisions is both unefficient and undemocratic. Every move to reduce the field of unanimity such as the Lisbon treaty is a progress that must enter quickly into force.

By: Anders Ekberg

Anders Ekberg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:47:55 +0000

To “enough mith the lies”

Do you honestly believe that the legal service decision was not a political one?? How naive can you be??

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:00:47 +0000

Tim, for someone who is supposed to have a few brain cells can you never do any better than that? You sound like an old record and the recording gets more and more scratched and messy every time it’s played.

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:28:01 +0000

“Itâ€™s a shame, because if Oneseat was put to a referendum this farce and waste of taxpayers money would be finally stopped.”

As an increasing number of us say about the EU itself of course.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:43:29 +0000

Oh I don’t know, there are some MEPs whose performance would be improved if they were struck on the head by falling roof tiles…