In one of those inimitably embarrassing moments, interpreters who forgot to switch off their mikes in the European parliament were heard loudly complaining Tuesday about a British MEP’s dentures.
“I can’t hear him!”, “Hes got a problem with his denture”, the pair of English-to-French interpreters said. Heard by anyone listening in to the French translation of parliamentary debate Tuesday, the incident lasted only a few minutes but remained on the parliament’s website through the day.
The two interpreters overheard were worrying over 77-year-old Eurosceptic British member of the European Parliament, Roland Clark.
The parliament, which works in 23 languages, employs some 430 interpreters full time, with an extra 2,500 used occasionally.
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