MEP proves he’s quite a card

Date: 04/01/1996

British Conservative Euro MP Edward McMillan-Scott has a thing about cards. Not playing cards, but information cards. Every time a major event occurs in Europe, he rushes into print with a post card-sized summary for his colleagues and any member of the public who wishes to keep an instant reminder about their person.

The first was the Maastricht card, in which Edward whittled down the treaty to just 600 words for easy digestion.

Next came the EMU card and the KHAKI card, which assessed the single currency process and the EU's common foreign and security policy with equally commendable brevity.

Now you can slip into your wallet the “Pre-IGC card”, which pins down the ten-page Reflection Group report in a handful of paragraphs. Clearly this man could scythe through the Euro paper mountain in a trice given half a chance.

Perhaps his most interesting card, though , in the same format, is the “Travellers' Fish Card”, which lists the main edible river and sea fish in Europe in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.