UK MEP re-elected as head of European economic committee

UK member of the European Parliament Sharon Bowles has been re-elected as chair of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (Econ).

Bowles was first elected to the position in July 2009, and will now serve another two-and-a-half-year term. She will lead Econ in overseeing the regulation of the financial sector, the free movement of capital and payments, competition rules, tax provisions, and the functioning of the euro.

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