【比利时《政治新闻网》】除草剂投票毒害欧洲政治 [比利时媒体]

GermanChancellor Angela Merkel had more freedom to approve the controversialweedkiller after coalition talks with the Greens broke down | Virginia Mayo/AFPvia Getty Images

德国总理安格拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）在与绿党的联盟谈判破裂后，有了更多的自由以批准使用有争议的除草剂。 维吉尼亚·梅奥/法新社via Getty Images

An EUvote approving the use of a controversial weedkiller for another five years triggeredan immediate backlash from Paris and Rome, and is poisoning German politics onthe eve of grand coalition talks.

欧盟投票批准一种有争议的除草剂可以继续使用五年，这引发巴黎和罗马的直接反弹，并在大联合政府谈判前夕毒害德国政治。

After more than two years of fierce politicaldebate over whether glyphosate causes cancer, EU countries on Monday voted torenew the license of the world’s most common herbicide thanks to a dramaticU-turn from Berlin.

经过两年多关于草甘膦是否导致癌症的激烈政治争论，欧盟国家周一投票决定延长世界上最常见的除草剂的使用许可，这要归功于柏林的态度的一百八十度转变。

Germany ultimately gave the green light aftermonths of abstaining on the issue. Most recently, Berlin’s envoys said thattheir hands were tied because Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives had beenexploring a coalition deal with the fiercely anti-pesticide Greens. Those talksfell apart a week ago, freeing Merkel to approve glyphosate.

德国在这个问题上选择弃权了几个月后终于开了绿灯。 最近，柏林的特使们表示，由于默克尔总理的保守派一直在寻求与激烈反对使用的杀虫剂的绿党达成联盟协议，使得他们（批准草甘膦的尝试）变得束手束脚。 由于此谈判一周前破裂了，消除了默克尔批准草甘膦的顾忌。

The EU vote in a food safety committee attendedby national officials came as a relief to farmers across the Continent, who seethe weedkiller as vital to preserving bumper crop yields. At the height of thedebate, it often looked as if environmental campaigners would win the politicalbattle by arguing that glyphosate was both carcinogenic and harmful to thesoil.

欧盟在食品安全委员会中的投票对整个欧洲大陆的农民来说都是一种解脱，他们认为使用除草剂对获得丰收至关重要。 在辩论最激烈的时候，人们大多认为环境活动家们会利用他们那草甘膦致癌且对土壤有害的观点取得这场辩论的胜利。

While northern and eastern European countrieslargely voted in favor of a new glyphosate license in Brussels on Monday,France and Italy sought to block it.

虽然北欧和东欧国家大多投票赞成布鲁塞尔批准新的草甘膦许可证，但法国和意大利试图阻止它。

Any hopes that the vote would lay the glyphosatedebate to rest were immediately confounded by French President Emmanuel Macronand Italian Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina, who said Paris and Romewould still ban glyphosate over the next three years.

关于草甘膦的辩论能够告一段落的希望已经落空了。法国总统马克龙（EmmanuelMacron）和意大利农业部长马蒂纳（MaurizioMartina）在投票后马上表示，巴黎和罗马在未来三年内逐渐禁用草甘膦。



Activists outside theEuropean Commission in Brussels protesting against glyphosate | EmmanuelDunand/AFP via Getty Images

活动家在布鲁塞尔的欧盟委员会外抗议草甘膦。EmmanuelDunand /法新社via Getty Images

“I asked the government to make the necessaryarrangements so that the use of glyphosate is prohibited in France as soon asalternatives have been found,” Macron tweeted after the vote.

“我已经要求政府作出必要的安排，一旦发现替代品，法国就会禁止使用草甘膦，”马克龙在投票结果后发推特说。

A ban by France is a bold move from Macron.While he will win support from a solid caucus of green-minded voters, he risksa stinging backlash from French farmers using more than 600 glyphosateproducts. Martina said Rome would also seek to eradicate glyphosatedomestically by 2020.

法国的这一禁令是马克龙的一项大胆的举动。虽然他将赢得来自关心环境的选民的全力支持，但他却冒着遭受正在使用600多种草甘膦产品的法国农民激烈抗争的风险。 玛蒂娜说，到2020年，罗马也将设法根除国内的草甘膦使用。

Bad blood in Berlin

柏林坏血

The domestic political fall-out in Germany wasequally startling.

德国国内的政治失败同样令人吃惊。

Just as politicians from Merkel’s conservativesare seen to be inching toward talks on renewing a grand coalition with theSocial Democrats, the two factions came to blows over the glyphosate vote.

正如默克尔保守派的政治家们正在推动与社民党再次建立大联合政府的谈判一样，这两个政党也开始逐渐倾向在草甘膦争议中投赞成票。

Moments after the food committee made itsdecision, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks from the SocialDemocrats angrily asserted that she had been double-crossed on Berlin’sposition by conservative Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt.

在食品委员会作出决定之后，社会民主党的德国环境部长芭芭拉·亨德里克斯（BarbaraHendricks）愤怒地宣称，她在代表在柏林的立场时遭到了保守的农业部长克里斯蒂安•施密特（Christian Schmidt）的出卖。

In an unusually damning statement, she saidSchmidt had confirmed in a text message to her that Germany would abstain.Simultaneously, a different order to vote in favor of renewing the herbicidewas sent to officials in Brussels attending the vote.

她在一则异乎寻常严厉的谴责声明中说，施密特在一条手机短信中向她证实，德国将会弃权。 同时，另外一条投票赞成继续使用除草剂的命令被发送给了在布鲁塞尔参加投票的官员。

“No one who is interested in trust buildingbetween partners can behave like this,” Hendricks said, adding that Germanyshould have abstained due to ongoing disagreements between the environment andagriculture ministries.

“没有任何想要在合作伙伴之间建立信任关系的人会这么做”，亨德里克斯说, 并表示由于环境部门和农业部门之间持续的分歧，德国应该弃权。

Andrea Nahles, leader of the SPD group in theBundestag, called Schmidt’s move “a massive breach of trust” and said: “Ireally wonder whether Merkel has her people under control.”

社会民主党领袖安德烈·纳勒斯称施密特的举动是“大规模违背信任”，并说：“我真的怀疑默克尔是否有能力控制自己的下属。”

Martin Häusling, a Green lawmaker from Germanyin the European Parliament, laid the blame for the decision on the fact thathis party was no longer likely to play a part in the next coalition government.

来自德国的欧洲议会议员马丁•哈素林（MartinHäusling）对这一决定表示谴责，并表示他的党不可能参加下一届的联合政府。

“The decision in favor of the controversialherbicide glyphosate, which is suspected of causing cancer, is inflicted onEurope by the desolate state of the government’s formation in Germany … Thebehavior of the Federal Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt lacksforesight and is scandalous.”

“这项有利于使用草甘膦除草剂，一种疑似致癌的药品由于德国的无政府状态而强加于欧洲的......联邦农业部长克里斯蒂安•施密特的行为缺乏前瞻性，而且是可耻的。“

Schmidt’s office said that the bill approved onMonday had already factored in provisions on biodiversity which Hendricks hadbacked. His office recalled that Hendricks had said last year that “the federalgovernment can approve a prolongation” of glyphosate as long as the EU“protects biodiversity.”

施密特的办公室说，星期一通过的法案已经考虑到了亨德里克斯支持的有关生物多样性的规定。 他的办公室回忆说，去年亨德里克斯曾经说过，只要欧盟“保护生物多样性”，“联邦政府可以批准延长草甘膦的使用期限”。



French PresidentEmmanuel Macron has promised that his country will ban the weedkillerregardless | Thibault Camus/AFP via Getty Images

法国总统马克龙已经许诺在他的国家禁用除草剂。 Thibault Camus /法新社via Getty Images

Schmidt did not specifically refer to thedispute over text messages.

施密特没有特别j解释关于手机短信的争议。

The clash between Hendricks and Schmidt is notthe first sign of left-right tensions that could muddy the waters in Germanpolitics as a grand coalition comes into increasing focus.

亨德里克斯和施密特之间的冲突不是表征左右派之间紧张局势的第一个迹象，由于大联合政府谈判日益成为焦点，德国政坛的水可能会更加浑浊。

Der Spiegel on Monday reported that a fissurebetween the SPD and Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) created problems overthe way the country should vote on who should host the European BankingAuthority after the U.K. leaves the EU. The magazine reported that the SPDminister at the meeting did not support Dublin’s candidacy as the CDU hadwanted.

【明镜周刊】周一报道，社民党和默克尔的基督教民主党联盟（基民盟）之间就关于投票决定（在英国脱欧之后）哪国应该主办欧洲银行管理局的问题上产生了裂隙。该杂志报道说社民党在这次会议上并不支持都柏林的候选资格，但基民盟却希望提名都柏林。

Monday’s decision sparked an angry reaction fromenvironmental groups, who have argued for years that policymakers should havepaid closer attention to an assessment carried out by the World HealthOrganization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, which concluded thatglyphosate “probably” causes cancer.

周一的决定引发了环保组织的愤怒。后者多年来一直认为，决策者应该更加关注世界卫生组织的国际癌症研究机构的评估结果，即草甘膦“可能”导致癌症。

Both the European Food Safety Authority and theEuropean Chemicals Agency, by contrast, determined the chemical was safe.

与之相反，欧洲食品安全管理局和欧洲化学品管理局认为这种化学品是安全的。



以下为【比利时《政治新闻网》】网友评论

PdB
Another kick in the groin Mutti old girl. No one wants you.Retire, for your sake, for the sake of your party, and for the sake of ourGermany.

你腹股沟上又挨了一脚，穆蒂老女孩。 没有人想要你。 退休吧，为了你自己，为了你的党派，为了我们的德国。
译注：穆蒂指默克尔。

mGuy
“Whilenorthern and eastern European countries largely voted in favor of a newglyphosate license in Brussels on Monday, France and Italy sought to block it.”– Yes, because the vote was all about competition from eastern and centralEuropean farmers that Italian and French farmers cannot meet; and cheaper agriproducts for northern European consumers.

“虽然北欧和东欧国家大多投票赞成布鲁塞尔批准新的草甘膦许可证，但法国和意大利试图阻止它。” 那自然，这个投票存在就是因为意大利和法国农民竞争不过东欧和中欧农民，北欧消费者也能得到更便宜的农产品。

Jack de Boot 回复mGuy
Its a house of cards and its unstable, like an epileptic ona unicycle.

这就像一个不稳定的纸牌屋，像是癫痫病人骑在独轮车上。

XKM 回复 jack de boot,
…orlike a brexitear trying to say “I’m not a racist bigot”

...或者就像一个英国脱欧支持者试着说“我不是一个种族主义偏执狂”

Jack de Boot 回复XKM
I apologize if I give the wrong impression and I don’t meanto offend but you don’t need weedkiller when you have a face like that !  

如果我给你留下不恰当的印象，我很抱歉，我不是故意冒犯，但是当你长着这样一张脸的时候，你不需要除草剂！

Peter 回复 XKM
Ironically your quip is just as bigoted!
I am a Brexit supporter and like most, I am anything butracist, immigration is a good thing when managed effectively, but it cannot bemanaged within the confines of the EU.

具有讽刺意味的是，你的讽刺也一样偏执！
我是英国脱欧的支持者，但我决不是种族主义者，如果移民能得到有效管理，就是一件好事，但在欧盟范围内这是无法管理的。

Jack de Boot (aka Jack Ass) 回复Peter
Peter, I’ve never been bigoted (not that I know of lol) andthese fella’s are refreshed and mind wiped every morning. You can tell themsomething one day and the next they have forgotten. They learn nothing. Theyare only of use to take the waz of. If that makes me bigoted then they haveonly themselves to blame for making me bigoted.
History is once again in the making and all they do is denyit while I do my best to enjoy and revel in it.

Peter，我从来不偏执（就我个人看来是这样，哈哈），这些家伙每天早上都会精神焕发啥也记不起来。 你可以告诉他们一些事情，第二天他们就忘记了。 他们什么都不学。 他们只会撒尿。 如果说出这证明我偏执，那么他们只能责怪他们自己让我变得偏执。
我们正在创造历史，他们所做的一切都是否认这一切，而我却尽力享受这一切并揭露事实。
译注：waz是北英格兰俚语，指撒尿。

Jack de Boot (aka Jack Ass).
And they do entertain me. Its groundhog day every day.

而且他们确实是能够娱乐我。（看他们就像看）每天不停地跑的土拨鼠一样。

Anonymous
take it for granted
German government gives green light to German chemicalindustry to poison people again, 70 years after WW 2.

理所当然。
第二次世界大战结束70年后，德国政府再次允许德国的化学工业毒害人民。

bc
Recent German track record as far as environment and healthof citizens is concerned is a disaster:
–dieselgate tolerated for years putting health and lives of millions of EUcitizens at risk
–growing CO2 emissions due to burning of di2ty fos2il fuels: German coal andgrowing volume of natura1 gas from Ru2sia
–today Germany started to log down Hambach Forest – nearly 12,000 years old,rich in biodiversity and home to 142 species regarded as important forconservation – to extract and burn even more lignite coal
–In September German authorities killed a bison – protected specie that camefrom Poland:
‘Aftermore than 250 years a wild bison had been spotted again in Germany and all theauthorities could think to do is shoot it,’ WWF board member Chris Heinrichsaid.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says it will be filing chargesagainst officials in Germany who ordered hunters to shoot a wild bison believedto be the first of its kind spotted in the country in over 250 years.
But it does not prevent German authorities from constantlylecturing other countries – even those more successful in this area.

从环境和公民健康的角度而言，最近的德国的行为记录是一场灾难：
- 被容忍多年的柴油门将数百万欧盟公民的健康和生命安全置于危险境地。
- 燃烧化石燃料造成的二氧化碳排放增加：德国的煤炭燃烧和俄罗斯的天然气燃烧都在增长。
- 今天，德国开始砍伐拥有近12000年历史的拥有丰富生物多样性的汉巴赫森林（HambachForest），其中142种生物被认为是环境保护的重要一环，以提取和燃烧更多的褐煤
- 9月，德国当局杀死了一头野牛：一种来自波兰的保护动物
世界野生动物基金会董事会成员克里斯·海因里希说：“经过250多年的恢复，在德国境内终于再次发现野牛，但当局唯一的反应就是开枪打死它。”
世界野生动物基金会（WWF）表示，将对命令猎人开枪杀死了250多年来在该国首次发现的野生野牛的德国官员提出指控。
但是，这并不妨碍德国当局不断地（就环境保护问题）指导其他国家 – 即使那些国家在这方面远比德国成功。

Peter
Sorry jack I wasn’t suggesting you are bigoted I was merelypointing out that xkm’s sweeping generalization is guilty of the same ignorancethat he or she is suggesting brexiteers are motivated by.

回复Jackde Boot
不好意思，jack，我不是说你是在固执己见，我只是想指出，像xkm那样对英国脱欧者开地图炮说他们无知的行为其实恰恰证明了他自己也一样无知。

Jack de Boot
@Peter
No, no worries Peter, I understand perfectly.
These Europeans always call pot kettle black but they areblinded by the plank in their own eyes. An example being one of Trumpsdaughters being put up as some spokeswoman and they go berserk. They forgetMacrons wife Budget is placed in the same position and they do not see whatthey do so long as they do it. Its weird. I see things as they are and so doyou, but they don’t. I don’t worry about it but I do take the waz out of themfor being so blind (and the more they don’t like it the more I do)..

回复Peter
不，不用担心Peter，我完全理解你的意思。
这些欧洲人总是乌鸦笑猪黑。 一个例子就是特朗普的一个女儿当上发言人后，他们就疯狂地指责特朗普。 他们忘记了马克龙的妻子其实也处于相同的岗位上。不管他们做了什么蠢事，只要他们还正在做（这件蠢事），他们自己就不会发现（自己做了蠢事）。 这真有点奇怪。 我能看到事情的本质，你也一样，但是他们可不是这样。 我不担心这件事，但是我确实经常因为这件事嘲讽他们（他们越是不喜欢，我越是这样）。

Fabian
Why have two EU agencies for exactly this field of studywhen you don’t listen to their conclusion? That would be hypocritical, would itnot?

为什么有两个欧盟机构正好在这个领域进行研究，而你却不听他们的结论？这非常虚伪，不是吗？

Marvin Ex Pat
@Fabian
Or, would it be because its owned by Germany ?

回复Fabian
可能是因为这些机构全是德国开的？

Joseph K.
“Afierce political debate over whether glyphosate is cancerogenic or not” – thissentence is absolutely ubuesque and shows up the absurdity of the wholeproblem. The politics are not scientists and should rely in their decisions inthese matters on experimental science and not on ideology.

“关于草甘膦是否是致癌的激烈的政治辩论”- 这句话绝对不合常理，揭示了整个问题的荒谬性。 政治家不是科学家，他们应该依靠实验数据而不是意识形态来做决定。

Jack de Boot
take it for granted
German government gives green light to German chemicalindustry to poison people again, 70 years after WW 2.
If we are lucky, we can get our hand on some barrels of thisfine stuff and have them dispatched over whitehall, wiping out these bastards.And maybe injcting some into Tessys sourpuss would straighten her frown.

理所当然
第二次世界大战后第70年，德国政府再次允许德国化学工业毒害人民。
如果我们幸运的话，我们可以弄一桶这种好东西，把它们放在怀特霍尔宫里，把那些混蛋全弄死。 还可以弄一些注射到特蕾莎的臭x里去，这么做可能会让她快乐一点。
译注：
怀特霍尔宫（英语：Palaceof Whitehall）又称为白厅宫，位于英国伦敦。许多英国政府机构都设置在这里，因此白厅也是英国政府的代名词。
特蕾莎指特蕾莎·梅（TheresaMay），英国首相。

Chlorinated chicken
Eutopia is more than happy to poison their own people withcancer causing chemical, says it all really about high agriculture and foodstandards

欧罗巴理想国非常乐意用自己生产的化学毒剂制造癌症，并解释说这一切都是与农产品和食品的高标准有关。
译注：Eutopia是欧洲（Europe）和乌托邦（Utopia）的合成词。

Orthogonal (formerly Chris)
I guess it was inevitable. In the German coalitionnegotiations stopping Glyphosate was going to be a carrot that was dangled infront of the Greens to encourage them into a coalition. The Greens scupperedthe coalition talks. Merkel must do what she threatened to do if the Greens didnot cooperate, otherwise she would not be taken seriously by any other party infuture coalition talks.
By choosing to scupper the talks the Greens must take someresponsibility for this decision. Clearly it was not the top on their list ofpriorities.

我想这是不可避免的。 在德国的大联合政府谈判里，废止草甘膦只是一根棍子上挂着的胡萝卜，在绿党面前晃来晃去，鼓励他们加入大联合政府。 绿党退出了谈判。默克尔就必须做自己曾经用来威胁绿党（以防止他们退出）的事情，否则她的话在今后的大联合政府谈判里就不会被任何一方当回事了。
由于选择了退出谈判，绿党必须承担做出这个决定带来的后果。 显然，这（是否废止草甘膦）不是他们最优先考虑的事情。

WJB
This is not about who poisons who, it’s a about politics.Once again Merkel has made a statement, ‘ I am in charge, and you lot will doas I tell you’ . It does not bode well for Germany and Europe.

这和谁毒害谁无关，这就只和政治有关。 默克尔再一次发表了这个声明：“我才是老大，而且我说什么你们就得做什么。” 这对德国和欧洲来说可不是一个好兆头。

Vishnou
The German position doesn’t poison anything. Just normalhick-ups at EU level as usual. 5 years to find an alternative to the product:farmers are thankful. Glyphosate is but a minor poisoning factor compared tocar and industrial pollution. Just take the time to wash your vegetables andfruit before swallowing them. How do you think one can eradicate pests Blowingat them in the wind? Come one: wake up. The world population is expending andneeds to be fed.

德国的立场不会毒害任何东西。 就像往常一样，这只是在欧盟层面正常的官僚主义套路。需要5年来找到（草甘膦的）替代产品：农民会为这个决定（而不是立即废止草甘膦）感到高兴的。 与汽车和工业污染相比，草甘膦只是一个轻微的中毒风险。 只要在狼吞虎咽之前花点时间洗干净蔬菜和水果（就不会有有任何中毒风险）。 你觉得怎么才能消灭农业害虫呢？朝它们吹气？ 清醒点吧。 世界人口不断膨胀，我们需要更多食物。