Brussels rejects UK’s financial services Brexit plan - 節選
布魯塞爾方面拒絕了英國關於其退歐後如何管理倫敦金融城(City of London)進入歐盟市場的提議，稱特里薩•梅(Theresa May)最新的金融服務計劃將剝奪歐盟的“決策自主權”。Brussels has rejected the UK’s proposals on how to govern the City of London’s access to the European market after Brexit, saying Theresa May’s latest financial services plan would rob the EU of its “decision-making autonomy”.
歐盟(EU)的英國退歐首席談判代表米歇爾•巴尼耶(Michel Barnier)上週五對各國歐盟事務部長說，英國首相對倫敦金融城與歐盟未來關係的願景，將違反歐盟金融服務市場準入權是布魯塞爾方面給予的一份禮物的原則，這份禮物是可以自由收回的。Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, told European affairs ministers on Friday that the British prime minister’s vision for the City’s future relationship with the EU would violate the principle that access rights to the bloc’s financial services market are a gift from Brussels that can be freely withdrawn.
他的言論是對英國政府的拒絕（後者在本月發表了一份有關英國與歐盟未來關係的白皮書），並突顯了雙方的許多衝突，儘管雙方在同一個會議上在北愛爾蘭邊界問題上的語調更為緩和。His remarks were a rebuff to the UK government — which published its white paper this month on Britain’s future relations with the EU — and highlight the many conflicts between the two sides despite a more conciliatory tone over the Northern Ireland border issue at the same meeting.
長達98頁的上述文件表明，英國在金融服務領域的地位發生變化，計劃建立一個增強型“對等”模式——建立在現有歐盟體系的基礎上，包括美國和新加坡在內的國家都利用該體系簡化其進入歐盟的程序。The 98-page document signalled a shift in its position on financial services with plans for an enhanced “equivalence” model — building on an existing EU system that countries including the US and Singapore use to simplify their access to the bloc.
英國已承認將失去單一市場的“護照”，英國財政大臣菲利普•哈蒙德(Philip Hammond)放棄了一項更為雄心勃勃的“相互承認”計劃，但表示，倫敦金融城將尋求比歐盟現有的對等模式更好的交易。The UK has acknowledged that it would lose its single market “passport”, and Philip Hammond, chancellor, scrapped a more ambitious “mutual recognition” plan, but said the City would seek a better deal than the EU’s existing equivalence model.
然而，據參加上週五會議的兩名人士透露，巴尼耶向歐盟各國部長們表示，該計劃無視歐盟關於對等決定必須由布魯塞爾單方面作出的立場。他表示，這將相當於一個“實際上由歐盟和英國共同管理的普遍對等體系”。However, according to two people who attended Friday’s meeting, Mr Barnier told ministers that the plan would ride roughshod over the EU’s stance that equivalence decisions must be made unilaterally by Brussels. He said it would amount to a “system of generalised equivalence that would in reality be jointly run by the EU and UK”.
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