Expanded US trade and the symbolism of a new and enduring transatlantic agreement could be a political lifeline for embattled EU leaders who see nothing but austerity and political fights ahead. It gives them something new to offer their consumers and at least some of their producers. And it makes clear that the US is putting a long-term bet on the EU, just as it has done ever since 1958, That also has to mean a long-term bet on the survival and indeed expansion of the eurozone. All of which means that if European governments are ever to find the political will to face down the agricultural and other lobbies that have frozen previous efforts to achieve a US-EU trade agreement, the time is now.
对于陷入困境、眼睛只盯着紧缩和政治斗争的欧盟各国领导人来说,对美贸易额扩大以及签订新的跨大西洋长期协定产生的象征意义,可能成为挽救他们政治命运的“救生索。这将使得他们能够向欧盟消费者以及至少一部分生产者提供某些新的东西。此外它可表明,美国将长期押宝于欧盟——正如其1958年以来一直做的那样。与此同时它肯定还意味着,美国长期押宝于欧元区的存续和真正扩张。这一切意味着,如果欧洲各国政府打算树立政治意愿、直面曾使早先美欧达成贸易协定的努力陷于停滞的农业游说组织和其他游说组织,现在正是时机。
Britain should be watching these developments with particular interest. If the US and the EU can agree to merge their markets, the cost of a potential British exit from the EU go way up. Britain would once again become an island economy, but one walled off from a transatlantic sea.
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