“Years ago, I spent a week reporting from the European parliament
in Strasbourg. One evening, a group of MEPs asked if I would join them for
dinner….. The meal exquisite – one superlative dish followed another – though I
could scarcely enjoy it, since I knew that my paper…would be deeply unhappy about
refunding the monstrous bill I could expect. Finally it arrived and I started
to search for a credit card. This was greeted by looks of incredulous astonishment,
as if I had stumbled into a Bateman cartoon – ‘the man who thought he had to
buy his own dinner in Strasbourg’. ‘My dear fellow,’ said one of the MEPs, ‘you
are a guest of the European Socialist group!’”. From Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Wine by Simon
Hoggart.
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