Nine years after the Brexit referendum, the howls of “surrender” from Britain’s political right over the Labour government’s reset with the EU shows how divisive, and cloaked in misinformation, the issue remains. The agreement is not a massive sellout. Neither is it, in sum, a massive deal. It is, though — like the UK’s recent trade pacts with India and the US — a worthwhile step. Its importance is above all symbolic: the first big UK-wide agreement with the EU since Brexit is a recognition that it is in both sides’ interests to work more closely together.
英國退歐公投九年後，英國工黨政府與歐盟重啓關係，英國右翼政界對此高呼「投降」，這顯示出該議題依舊極具分裂性，並被大量錯誤資訊所籠罩。這項協議並不是一次重大的讓步，也不是一項重大的交易。它與英國最近與印度和美國簽署的貿易協定一樣，是值得肯定的一步。其意義主要在於象徵性：這是英國自退歐以來與歐盟達成的首個重大協議，表明雙方都認識到更緊密合作符合彼此利益。
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