European Parliament | Strasbourg
Glass-and-steel debating chamber used only twelve times a year under a decades-old treaty compromise.
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This guide to the European Parliament in Strasbourg opens on an August evening in 2008, when something gave way inside the debating chamber. From there it turns to the treaty that sends thousands of members and staff here for a handful of sessions a year, the critics who call it a travelling circus, and the argument over what that costs. Best heard standing in front of the building, with the tower in view.
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