Senior MEP admits thinking “what are they talking about?”
Sharon Bowles, soon to be chair of the European parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee had trouble staying awake when she joined it four years ago, the FT reports.
"I sat there . . . thinking, 'what are they talking about?' I remember it was very difficult to keep awake," she is quoted as saying
In a profile of the British Liberal Democrat MEP who will set new European Union rules to control financial services companies, she admits to being surprised to have got the job.
"I asked to have [the] chair of trade if I was up for getting a chair. I certainly didn't ask for this one, because I thought it was beyond reach," she said.
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