Britain is a “waning country” and too small to stand alone on the world stage, the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed in a withering assessment of the UK’s exit from the EU. Rutte, who has emerged as a key player in the talks over the past two years.
It was yet another insult from an EU spokesman that is likely to raise anti-EU feeling in the UK, following remarks by EU Pres. Donald Tusk a week ago, in which he said there's a "special place in hell" for Brexiteers who didn't plan ahead (which was taken as an insult by many ordinary UK voters who backed Brexit) and last month, EU chief Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt claimed if the UK leaves, one day it will be led back into the EU "where it belongs."
"Who will be left weakened by Brexit is the United Kingdom," he said. "It is already weakening, it is a waning country compared to two or three years ago. It is going to become an economy of middling size in the Atlantic Ocean. It is neither the US nor the EU. It is too small to appear on the world stage on its own."
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