法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙于9月30日周三对英国首相安迪·伯纳姆提出英国重新加入欧盟的想法作出回应，用英语说：“欢迎回来。”马克龙在马德里的一场新闻发布会上用法语补充道：“如果英国人想回来，如果首相正朝着这个方向前进，我认为这对他的国家和欧洲人来说都是非常好的消息。”他站在西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯旁边补充说：“回来吧。”
French President Emmanuel Macron reacted Wednesday, September 30, to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham floating the idea of Britain rejoining the European Union by saying in English: "Welcome back." "If the British want to come back and if the prime minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news both for his country and for Europeans," Macron added in French at a news conference in Madrid. "Come back," he added, standing alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
伯纳姆自7月工党议员赶走基尔·斯塔默后担任首相，他在周三早些时候播出的一次采访中表示，重新加入欧盟是英国与欧洲未来关系可能形态这一不可避免问题的潜在答案之一。
Burnham, prime minister since July after Labour MPs turfed out Keir Starmer, said in an interview broadcast earlier on Wednesday that rejoining the EU was among the potential answers to the unavoidable question of what Britain's future relationship with Europe could look like.
他的评论是在他告诉执政党工党年度会议后发表的，他将在今年晚些时候与欧盟计划举行的峰会前，为未来与欧盟的关系制定“不同的选项”。
His comments came after he told his ruling Labour Party's annual conference that he would set out "different options" for future ties with the European Union closer to a planned summit with the bloc later this year.
马克龙表示，当英国还是欧盟成员国时，英国人“在帮助我们简化事务方面一直很有用”，并且是“要求严格的伙伴”。他补充说：“安迪·伯纳姆有这种胆识是对的。”
Macron said the British had "always been useful in helping us simplify things" when the UK was part of the EU and were "demanding partners." "Andy Burnham is right to have this boldness," he added.
这位法国总统还指出，在脱欧公投十年后，英国在留在欧盟之外的同时寻求与欧盟建立更紧密关系存在局限性。他说：“你不能在联盟的自由之间做选择，决定只取适合我们的部分，而不取其余部分。”
The French president also pointed to the limits of the UK seeking closer ties with the EU while remaining outside the bloc, a decade after the Brexit vote. "You cannot choose between the freedoms of the union and decide to take what suits us and not the rest," he said.
桑切斯采取了类似立场，称英国脱欧是“巨大的损失，对英国民众和整个欧洲计划都是如此”。他补充说，如果英国寻求重新加入欧盟，“那么西班牙当然会为此鼓掌，并再次向兄弟般的人民敞开怀抱。”
Sanchez took a similar position, calling Brexit "a huge loss, both for the British population and for the whole European project." If the UK were to seek to rejoin the bloc "then of course Spain would applaud it and open its arms again to a brotherly people," he added.