EU 'moving very much along UK lines' says ex Sweden PM

Some of the big issues in the EU are "moving very much along UK lines" said a former Swedish prime minister in London trying to persuade Britain not to leave.

And Carl Bildt said German Chancellor Angela Merkel was not the only leader who wanted the UK to stay.

But he warned that UK talk of treaty changes was "going to be very, very difficult", especially over freedom of movement, but some of the changes Britain wanted would not need such a change.

Speaking of the Greek election result, he said the Greeks "messed up their economy beyond belief and they have to get out of it themselves", and the new government has promised "heaven to everyone" with no way of funding its promises.

Mr Bildt, a former prime minister and foreign minister, was talking to Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics.

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