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Let’s put the brakes on Brussels’ revolving doors

Cooling-off periods prevent insiders of public institutions taking jobs at private companies for a suitable period – they are needed for all MEPs and top civil servants, argues Sven Giegold

How smoothly the revolving doors in Brussels spin. June 30 was Sharon Bowles’s last day as an MEP. Six weeks later, on August 15, she became a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange Group. Why does it matter?

From 2009 to 2014, Bowles chaired the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs - she was one of the key figures in European financial regulation.

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