France's Macron says U.S. policy driven by private sector interests

President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the private sector had excessive influence on U.S. policy and he reiterated his wish to see Europe offer a middle way between China's state-controlled economy and the United States's laissez-faire model.

"The United States is a formidable continent but they have a model which is completely steered by big private sector players and which is no longer subject to democratic checks and balances," Macron said at the end of a question and answer session at a tech summit in Paris. (Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain