Possible Clues:

• The language, when you say �Knock it off!�
• Language spoken close to us
• Japan, perhaps, receiving name in European language
• Perhaps sole repository for local language
• They sound like the last people to polish off the fish around the hotel
• European bar keeps heavy drinker outside
• National angle eclipses local
• A race — or the end of of a race, say
• European's final act being reported
• Eg, native to Helsinki