Brexit should be used to scrap seats in the EU Parliament

23 January 2018
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As things currently stand, it looks like at least 54 of the 73 British seats in the European Parliament will be retained after Brexit, with 27 of them being distributed in a European constituency. MEP Anneleen Van Bossuyt considers this incomprehensible: “When the British leave, their seats must disappear as well. Otherwise it will just be the latest in a long line of cases of taxpayers’ money being squandered.”

Europe already cannot justifiably explain the absurd decamping to Strasbourg (annual cost: 130 million euros). By allocating the “British” seats differently as from 2019, the credibility of the European Union will once again take a hammering. And yet, simply scrapping these seats can save Europe almost 30 million euros a year. Money that can be used for issues that actually keep citizens awake at night: jobs, security and migration.

European constituency is pointless

Anneleen Van Bossuyt is also not in the least convinced that a European constituency will reduce the chasm with the citizen: “Anyone who actually thinks that has lost any sense of reality. This is nothing more than a means for the traditional European parties to create extra positions. For the average European, that provides absolutely no benefit.”

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