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Originally Posted by pip08456
The EU press release I posted earlier makes no mention of any linkage at all and only mentions EU aircraft.
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Yup, I read the press release earlier and it certainly doesn’t explicitly make linkage, so I didn’t respond to it when you posted it. However it’s possibly just ambiguous enough for the Graun to have concluded that it does, insofar as the 4 clauses are presented together and may only be available as a single package. The Graun may have phoned the EU press office for clarification or it may be just shoddy journalism from the Grauniad.
I’ve looked up the BBC’s own report now and they don’t seem to see linkage in it, which is a relief (and will teach me to take anything written by the po-faced, smug lefties at the Guardian at face value). The BBC’s angle is that there is more than a whiff of “level playing field” in the EU’s offer, which might still kill it as far as HMG is concerned.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55259144