The EU must resist French efforts to “politicise” the single market or “copy and paste the Chinese model” of state intervention, Denmark’s prime minister said in a defence of Europe’s liberal economy.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen is one of the leaders of small, northern member states who worry that the loss of Britain’s free-market voice after Brexit will open an era of more interventionist, Franco-German-led policies.
“I’m not in favour of a soulless market but I’m not in favour of a politicised market either,” Mr Rasmussen told the Financial Times in an interview, refering to French president Emmanuel Macron’s pitch to transform EU competition and industrial policy.
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