I'll explain a bit better, a local politician who won a seat to the European Parliament, can under EU rules, bring his canvassers out to Brussels, Strasbourg, etc. my father canvassed (I didn't - the MEP in question is a lefty, and anyways I favour Irish withdrawal from the EU), so my parents are part of a group gone to that flat country.
WELLTHEN!
"Flat" explains it all!