英國高院 首相無權啓動退歐

Theresa May’s Brexit plans were thrown into turmoil yesterday after she suffered a High Court defeat that could trigger months of parliamentary warfare at Westminster over the terms of Britain’s departure from the EU.

特里薩.梅(Theresa May)的脫歐計劃昨日陷入混亂局面。她在英國高等法院(High Court)遭到挫敗，這可能在威斯敏斯特引發一場有關英國脫歐條件的、長達幾個月的議會鬥爭。

Mrs May will today tell Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, she is determined to face down a revolt by pro-EU MPs and stick to her plan to begin the Brexit process by the end of March 2017. “We have no intention of letting this derail our timetable,” her spokeswoman said.

今天梅將告訴歐盟委員會(European Commission)主席讓-克洛德.容克(Jean-Claude Juncker)，她決心挫敗親歐盟議員們的反抗，堅守她自己的計劃，即最遲在2017年3月底啓動脫歐進程。“我們無意讓這一事態搞亂我們的時間表，”她的發言人表示。

The prime minister’s first line of defence is to go to the Supreme Court in early December to try to overturn a High Court ruling that she must grant a parliamentary vote before invoking Article 50, the EU treaty clause that triggers a two-year divorce process.

英國首相的第一道防線是在12月初向英國最高法院(Supreme Court)提起上訴，試圖推翻高等法院有關她在觸發《里斯本條約》第50條之前必須授權議會進行投票表決的裁決。第50條將開啓爲期兩年的脫離歐盟進程。

If the appeal fails, Mrs May faces months of clashes in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Dominic Grieve, a former attorney-general, said she could still hit her March deadline but it was not guaranteed.

如果上訴失敗，梅會在下議院(House of Commons)和上議院(House of Lords)面臨數月的衝突。前總檢察長多米尼克.格里夫(Dominic Grieve)表示，她仍有可能在3月截止日期之前達到目的，但這一點不能保證。

MPs and peers are not expected to block Brexit altogether, but they will try to amend legislation authorising Article 50 to push the prime minister towards a “soft Brexit” negotiating stance. This would keep Britain in the single market and customs union.

預計上下兩院的議員不會完全阻止脫歐，但他們將試圖修改授權啓動第50條的立法，推動首相採取“軟脫歐”的談判立場，使英國得以留在單一市場和關稅聯盟內。

Sterling jumped to $1.2448 after the ruling, with an intraday rise as high as 1.2 per cent. But the pound gave up some of its gains after the government said it would appeal.

高等法院做出裁決後，英鎊匯率躍升至1英鎊兌1.2448美元，盤中漲幅最高達到1.2%。但英國政府表示將上訴後，英鎊回吐了部分漲幅。