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While the European Union’s institutions in Brussels are working to make in-house energy savings, some MEPs have argued that the parliament should no longer travel to Strasbourg once a month. “I find it completely unjustified that the European Parliament heats and lights two places and that we continue to travel between the two seats,” German Greens MEP Daniel Freund told Euronews. “I think that for the time of the energy crisis we should stay here in Brussels.” According to the EU treaties, Strasbourg is the seat of the Parliament’s plenary sessions, where its members debate and vote on key is…