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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScots Reject Spanish Warning on EU Status After Independence
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-23/scotland-rejects-spanish-warning-on-eu-status-after-independence.htmlThe Scottish government dismissed claims the country would have to apply to join the European Union should it vote to leave the U.K., after Spain warned membership wasnt guaranteed.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said yesterday that an independent Scotland would have to pass through the same process as other candidate countries. The semiautonomous administration in Edinburgh, which is campaigning to break from the U.K., reiterated its stance that Scotland would automatically remain within the EU. A minister said earlier in the day it was seeking legal advice on its status.
Scotland is part of the territory of the European Union and the people of Scotland are citizens of the EU -- there is no provision for either of these circumstances to change upon independence, a government spokesman said in an e-mailed response to questions last night. Scotland will inherit exactly the same international treaty rights and obligations as the rest of the U.K., as equal successor states.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond agreed this month to hold a referendum on independence scheduled for 2014. With the debate so far mainly focused on the economics of Scotland going it alone, polls show voters are roughly two-to-one in favor of staying in the U.K.
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Scots Reject Spanish Warning on EU Status After Independence (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2012
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. Spain afraid Scotland won't be sending them bailout money ? n/t
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. afraid catalan will see this and go ahead with it's bid for Independence. nt
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)3. Not only Catalonia
but the Basque territories are also pushing for independence from Spain. Have been for decades if not centuries.
If Scotland is allowed to go its own way in a peaceful partition of the UK and then join the EU, it will give more encouragement for Catalonia and Basque to do the same.