Last Wednesday, I purposefully moved into the lion's den. As someone who is used to ask all the tough questions about the EU,I expected to manifestly throw myself into quite an adventure when I decided to cover a 'Stop Brexit' march in Luxembourg-City. Little did I know that the excitement to stop this democratic vote wasn't all that large. Upon arrival, the first people who arrived weren't even organisers, which made that at 4.00 pm, when the march was supposed to start, you had just as many journalists present as there were protesters.

Agostina Lorenzini looks nervous as we begin the call on Google Hangout: "Bill, you know I don't like to talk about myself". The humility is unreasonable, as it is for most people who contribute a lot and don't mention their achievements. "The problem with today's society is that stupid people are full of confidence and intelligent people are full of doubt." Don't quote me on that, I just heard it somewhere and liked it.

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