Hong Kong should take “credible steps” to maintain its economic uniqueness and rule of law after focusing on security over the past four years, the European Union’s outgoing envoy has said. Thomas Gnocchi, head of the European Union office to Hong Kong and Macau, was posted to Hong Kong in September 2020. At the time, the city was all but sealed off by restrictions in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and political tensions were high in the wake of the enactment of a Beijing-imposed national security law in June following pro-democracy protests and unrest a year earlier. In an…
