If everything goes according to plan, the tin trunk – big enough to contain a corpse – will carry the Euro-MP’s papers from Brussels to Strasbourg in time to arrive before him.
The exercise of moving the entire caravan of 626 MEPs (members of the European parliament) between the two cities for a week per month of plenary sessions in Strasbourg costs, with luck, only two days’ work – half of two Fridays packing up the trunk, and half of two Mondays unpacking it.
Frustrating chores like this keep the European Parliament (EP) – and its armies of translators and hangers-on – at the fringes of European decision-making.
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