Possible Clues:

• Language -- around centre of Venice
• *Kinda-sorta
• Scandinavian — pastry
• Language course includes introductions to adjectives and nouns
• Describing Hamlet and his difficulty
• European writer dropping book in rush
• Embracing an extremely pretty girl, European
• A new meal's presented without pastry
• European office workers sample food from bakery
• European leader to disappear a hundred times