Dutch Premier Says U.K. Exit From EU Would Be 'Killer' for London
- Dutch prime minister speaks in interview on visit to Tokyo
- Rutte urges Cameron to stay in EU, for Britain and for Europe
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned the U.K. against voting to leave the European Union, saying that life outside the world’s biggest trading bloc would harm Britain’s status as a global financial center and prove to be economically damaging.
Speaking in an interview at the Dutch ambassador’s residence in Tokyo on Monday, Rutte said that an exit from the EU would mean the U.K. becoming “a mid-sized economy in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.”