卡梅伦限制欧盟移民计划遭反对

David Cameron has been warned by two of his closest allies that they would oppose any British attempt to restrict Europe’s rules on free movement of workers, in a further blow to the prime minister’s plans to limit immigration.

戴维•卡梅伦(David Cameron)的两名最亲密盟友警告他说，他们将反对英国限制欧洲劳动者迁徙自由的任何企图，这进一步打击了英国首相限制移民的计划。

Mr Cameron, who flies to Helsinki today for talks with Nordic and Baltic leaders, faces warnings from his Finnish host that free movement of workers is a “holy” principle, while there is “meagre” support for major EU treaty reform. Alexander Stubb, Finland’s Anglophile prime minister, said he wanted to help Mr Cameron but there were lines that even his closest allies would not cross in an EU renegotiation.

卡梅伦今日飞往赫尔辛基与北欧及波罗的海国家的领导人开展磋商。他面临着芬兰东道主的警告：劳动者迁徙自由是一条“神圣”原则，而对欧盟(EU)条约进行重大改革的支持“十分微弱”。芬兰亲英国的总理亚历山大•斯图布(Alexander Stubb)表示，他想帮助卡梅伦，但是在重启欧盟谈判的问题上，即使是最亲密的盟友也不能越过某些底线。

Stefan Löfven, Sweden’s new centre-left prime minister, also criticised Mr Cameron’s call for limits to free movement, amid suggestions that the prime minister was considering a system of quotas.

瑞典新任中左首相斯蒂凡•洛芬(Stefan Löfven)也批评了卡梅伦限制迁徙自由的呼吁。目前有人提出，英国首相正考虑建立一套配额制度。

Mr Löfven said: “It’s not much of an internal market if we develop a market together and then one or two countries say we want to change this. We might have other things we want to change.”

洛芬表示：“如果我们共同建立了一个市场，然后有一、两个国家表示我们想要改变这一安排，那就不成其为内部市场。我们可能有其他需要改革的地方。”

It was reported last weekend that German chancellor Angela Merkel would consider Britain leaving the EU rather than change free movement rules.

上周末曾有报道称，德国总理安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)宁愿让英国脱离欧盟，也不愿改变迁徙自由的规则。

Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, said yesterday: “I don’t have a problem with David Cameron. He has a problem with the other prime ministers.”

欧盟委员会(European Commission)主席让-克洛德•容克(Jean-Claude Juncker)昨天表示：“我和戴维•卡梅伦之间没有问题。他是和其他成员国的总理之间存在问题。”

Mr Cameron insisted in the Commons that he had a plan: “We want to sort out safeguards for the single market, we want to get out of ever closer union, we want immigration reform.” He will be among fellow liberal European leaders for a two-day Northern Future Forum meeting, discussing free trade, deregulation and tackling climate change. But Mr Stubb said: “We need to understand what the UK wants and the UK needs to learn where are the limits of other member states.” He regarded the EU’s principles of free movement of goods, money, services and people as “holy”.

卡梅伦在英国下议院坚称，他已有计划：“我们希望建立针对单一市场的防护机制，我们希望不加入越来越紧密的欧盟，我们希望进行移民改革。”他将与一些自由派欧洲领导人一起出席两天的北方未来论坛(Northern Future Forum)会议，就自由贸易、放松监管及应对气候变化等问题开展磋商。然而，斯图布表示：“我们需要理解英国的诉求，而英国则需要知道其他成员国的底线在哪里。”他用了“神圣”一词形容欧盟有关商品、资金、服务和人员自由迁徙的原则。

“Whether some kind of arrangement can be found, I don’t know,” he said. “But to start putting restrictions on free movement in one way or another I would find quite difficult.”

他说：“至于是否会达成某种安排，我不知道。不过，要想以这样那样的方式对自由迁徙加以限制，我认为是很难做到的。”

Mr Stubb said that European leaders might be able to accommodate some of Mr Cameron’s other demands through legal opt-outs, but he backed Ms Merkel’s opposition to major treaty reform.

斯图布表示，欧盟领导人也许能通过合法的退出安排，接纳卡梅伦部分其他要求，不过他支持默克尔反对对欧盟条约进行重大改革的立场。