While Europe is vaccinating its teens without a moment’s thought of giving away doses to vulnerable people in poorer countries, EU parliamentarians got an offer they could not refuse in return for their comeback to Strasbourg.
“How good it is to be back in Strasbourg!” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted – in French,
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– on the return of the EU caravan to the Strasbourg seat of the European Parliament.
Just a few of those present felt the same excitement, of course, as most of the people from the Brussel-resident EU bubble despise – and not even that covertly – the monthly journey to the Alsace region, and did so even before the pandemic.