英國強生一出手,就知歐盟多不爽
Boris Johnson's Brexit backstop bid rejected by EU leaders
英國強人首相強生(Boris Johnson)致函給歐洲理事會主席圖斯克(Donald Tusk),洋洋灑灑發表了4頁的信函,重申達成脫歐協議的期望,並強調反對愛爾蘭邊境保障措施的立場,對此,歐盟不甘示弱打臉反駁。
The European Union has rebuffed United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson's demand that it reopen a divorce deal about Britain's exit from the bloc, or Brexit, saying the country had failed to propose any realistic alternative to an agreed insurance policy for the Irish border.
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Johnson proposed that the backstop - part of the Withdrawal Agreement that then-prime minister Theresa May agreed last year - be replaced with a "commitment" to implement alternative arrangements as part of a deal on the post-Brexit relationship.
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In his letter, Johnson wrote that the backstop was anti-democratic and threatened the UK's sovereignty as the application of single-market rules in Northern Ireland could divide the region from the rest of the UK.
"Those against the backstop and not proposing realistic alternatives in fact support re-establishing a border. Even if they do not admit it," Tusk tweeted.
完整原文:Al Jazeera
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關鍵單字
rebuff 斷然拒絕
相較於同樣帶有拒絕意思的 reject (拒絕),rebuff 更能表現出拒絕當下的不滿態度,回答甚至是比較生硬、失禮。
backstop 愛爾蘭邊境保障措施
原意思為「英國圓場棒球中的捕手」。但本文中是指「愛爾蘭邊境保障措施」(Irish backstop),是一項能讓英國留在歐盟關稅區的機制,將維持北愛爾蘭的邊界開放,以及無貨物關稅審查,避免英國北愛爾蘭與歐盟成員國愛爾蘭之間出現硬邊界。
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本文收錄於英語島English Island 2019年9月號
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