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Considering Europe, the US and China as a triangle, many analysts have posited that one angle pulling further away would mean the other two necessarily grow closer, an idea the European Commission’s deputy director general for trade Maria Martin-Prat framed as “very catchy, but simplistic thinking”.
“I think maybe that was a bit simplistic … I have the impression that we are going to have such an economic fragmentation that you will be talking about different figures of geometry in different sectors,” she said.
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“I think you need to read the political messages sent by the president of the Commission, but also the policies she is putting in place, and I think that’s what gives you the overall picture,” Martin-Prat said at an event in Brussels on Friday.