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Originally Posted by Kizzy
According to the news Spain is making it more difficult than England as they are insisting Scotland will have to leave the EU and rejoin.
My feeling is united we stand, divided we fall. What's wrong with a certain amount of autonomy without being a totally separate country?
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Well that is a problem that Alex Salmond does need to address,Spain is likely correct in what it said.
Scotland is not a singular part of the EU, it is one of the Nations involved in the UK and it is the UK which is the member state.
Should Scotland leave the UK then it cannot possibly have voting rights in the EU after that until it is a member in its own right.
Scotland will in effect, if it votes to leave the UK be a different State altogether so will by that action also leave the EU being no longer a part of the accepted member State that is the United Kingdom.
I doubt that the EU would not permit them to join but it would I guess have to be that they would have to apply to join if independent, like any other Sate would.
That process meantime will not likely help the Scottish economy in the immediate short term..