title: How European are you?
abstract: Green issues have been nudged from the top of the small-talk hit list: it's far more fashionable now to have a view on Europe. With Sir Geoffrey Howe joining the growing band of deserters from the Tory camp over the vexed European question, chasms in the Cabinet have resulted in divisions at the dinner table. But Sir Geoffrey's walk-out came at the end of a week when euphoria mingled with indignation as France and Britain were linked by the Channel Tunnel. Shock waves rippled through the country with the realisation that Britain is 'no longer an island'. The euphoria had more to do with the glimmer of hope that the 'Chunnel was at some stage going to reach its objective.