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An agreement that marks a new era for Britain and represents a historic leap. Macch, that deal will make us poorer, reduce our global influence, and endanger national unity. Four and a half years after the referendum, the United Kingdom remains disunited by Brexit. And so too, as British newspaper editorials show, about the Brussels divorce agreement reached on Christmas Eve.
Leaving the orbit of the EU
The conservative Telegraph (Torygraph for the Enemies, a newspaper in which Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote extensively) opens its editorial by writing that Remain’s self-proclaimed pundits have once again been defeated. And above all, they have not yet understood what the philosophical debate is at the heart of Brexit and the context of the UK-EU deal. That is why, writes the Telegraph, they continue to consider the loss of integration and ties with Brussels as a cost, while the point of Brexit allows us to detach ourselves from the EU and leave its orbit. Ultimately, divorce as a necessary condition for the launch of global Britain, which will look to the world, no longer to Europe. This arrangement must be judged primarily by how little it restricts the British government’s freedom of action. The more opportunities the UK has to change and improve its laws, taxes, regulations and other policies to boost our economy and society, the better. Even the Telegraph has to admit that freedom to diverge runs the risk of running into disputes and arbitration for unfair competition, but predicts that such outbursts of hostility, while likely rare in practice, will only reveal the EU to the stubborn and protectionist congregation. , the enemy of innovation and competition that Brexiters have always claimed it to be. In conclusion, thanks to Boris Johnson, the UK is now in the best possible position to relaunch the country in the post-Covid world.
The illusions of Brexit
All the dangerous illusions that reality will soon fall apart, according to the progressive Observer. Sunday’s editorial in The Guardian says the Christmas Eve deal will undoubtedly one day be regarded as one of the biggest hoaxes ever inflicted on British voters. PredictingObserver exactly the opposite of that of Telegraph: This deal will have lasting consequences for the British for decades to come: on the well-being and resilience of communities in a highly unequal nation; on the UK’s potential to exert a positive influence in an increasingly unstable world and perhaps even on the integrity of the nation itself. Johnson’s national harassment law couldn’t have come at a worse time. Unleash significant economic damage during a global pandemic that has left the national healthcare system and economy in shambles. Not to mention the likely success of a new separatist referendum in Scotland and the uncertain fate of a Northern Ireland that, to avoid the return to a physical border with the rest of the island, there is a customs border between the homeland.
The open door to future cooperation
If the Observer seems eager to wait for the moment we told you (one day, our children and grandchildren will look back and be amazed that a political class has managed to make the country fail so completely), the Financial times, one of the staunchest defenders of Brexit negativity, yet invites us to stop crying over spilled milk and treasure what, for better or for worse, the divorce agreement allows. The true importance of the agreement that allows for an amicable divorce and leaves the door open for future cooperation, including on issues such as security and the fight against terrorism. It would also be desirable, as a trade policy priority of an independent Britain, over time to reduce new frictions with the EU by seeking new simplification and market access agreements, particularly for finance (the service sector, which It is the main British export to Europe, not regulated by the Christmas Eve agreement). The problem so far the government has given little indication of its plans. A vision of post-Brexit Britain, its economy and its place in the world, has yet to be delineated (if not, let’s add, in the imaginative but not very concrete way of global Britain). Worse, it is far from clear that a government that has largely mismanaged its response to the coronavirus is capable of leading a traumatized country through the extraordinary period of change that lies ahead.
The strength of the (European) Union
It might also be helpful to jump over to this side of the English Channel and see how the French have taken it from across the street. The world He titled his editorial with bitter relief and explains that after four and a half years of negotiations, it was time to put an end to it. But, instead of praising Boris Johnson, he praises the energy and phlegm of the main (French) negotiator on behalf of the EU, Michel Barnier and, above all, the unity demonstrated by the 27. Brexit has not only highlighted the power that the 27 can have if they are united, but we must hope that the Union, freed from the inertia and opposition that London exerted, can take advantage of this new configuration to increase its cohesion and strengthen its position in the world. As for Great Britain, given that only experience can demonstrate the solidity and viability of the divorce agreement reached, given the many points still open, to The worldInternationalist in its own name, Brexit was decided to believe in the lie, a project that goes against history, harmful to the economy and the bearer of new friction. The Europeans, but especially the British, have not finished paying the bill.
Perhaps the best summary was offered, in a few lines, by Charlie Cooper in Politico Europe: In a bad year, Boris Johnson finally had his moment of triumph. How long can it last, another question. My personal opinion, from what you can tell, will be short-lived. But I can’t enjoy it.
