All the fun of the Eurostar

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If it's Tuesday, then it must be Brussels. "Lifestyles of the rich and shameless," as one industry colleague said to me on hearing that I would be in the seat of European power the next day.

Yes, it’s certainly a glamorous business getting up at the crack of dawn to sit on the Eurostar for three hours followed by an all-day meeting, finished off with another three hours back on the train to Waterloo, and then another hour and a half to get back home. And to think I’m giving all this up. I must be mad. As you might have gathered, this wasn’t just a case of joining the European gravy train with the Kinnocks and their ilk for a day. There was work to be done. A large part of AMI’s focus is now on the European agenda. The simple reason behind this is that 70% of all regulation ...

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