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Tue 10 Oct 2008EU trade commissioner-designate Ashton rejects criticism she lacks experience
EU TRADE commissioner-designate Baroness Catherine Margaret Ashton last night rejected assertions by some MEPs that she was lightweight and did not have enough experience to take over the job of patching up negotiations on a new world trade agreement.
In a statement at the start of a three-hour grilling by the Parliament's committee on international trade, Baroness Ashton maintained that the first steps in her career as a politician and in business had been negotiating trade agreements with the EU on behalf of small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain.
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