EU lawmakers vote to end their costly 'travelling circus'

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to scrap the European Parliament's second headquarters in Strasbourg, to end what they say is a 200-million-euro-a-year "travelling circus" between the French city and Brussels.

But the vote is unlikely to succeed as only a unanimous decision by the EU's 28 national governments can change the current situation, and France signalled it would veto any move to close what it sees as a symbol of its status as a founding member of the European Union.