{"id":143600,"date":"2025-05-30T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143600\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:11:07","slug":"eu-officially-retires-its-no-cherry-picking-brexit-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143600\/","title":{"rendered":"EU officially retires its \u2018no cherry-picking\u2019 Brexit line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brexit-cherry-picking-is-inevitable-but-it-will-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cherry-picking line<\/a>\u00a0had been \u201ca product of the strained relationship that followed the referendum, and the EU\u2019s concern that other countries should not follow the UK\u2019s example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that where there is mutual interest in the two sides moving closer \u2014 as there is on [sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agri-food rules] and energy trading \u2014 the EU is happy for the British to pick a cherry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be other examples in the future of the UK\u00a0de facto\u00a0moving back into sectors of the single market, though it will have to accept dynamic alignment with EU rules in each of these areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said the\u00a0cherry-picking line\u00a0had been \u201ca product of the strained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114595776615349566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}