I really feel sorry for those at European. When I was there it was truly awful. They messed people around no end. I did 9 months. Being given 12 hours notice to go to the middle east for 3 months in the run up to the Iraq war was the last straw. We were assured that if the war threatened us in Saudi, we would be flown out. I doubt they would have had the organisational skills to do that with all the confusion going round at the time. So rather than get myself into a situation, I resigned-giving them 12 hours notice of course...