I wonder which country will get the contract for rebuilding Hadrian's Wall.
And who gets the tourist rights?
I did hear from a Scottish source that they are going to rent the Faslane facility to the Russians
Not if we demolish it when we leave!
I don't think the EU would be so foolish as to lose Scotland, Scotland won't be forced out, it's a one-off situation and a solutions to any technical problems will be found one way or another...
Not quite one-off; neither France nor Spain would be happy to see Scotland getting automatic membership. The treaties are relatively clear that Scotland would need to apply for membership, and those countries (at minimum - Belgium would have to think hard) would insist on Scotland playing by those rules. They don't want to encourage independence movements in Catalonia or the Basque country (or Flanders).
i agree, it's not without difficulty, but IMO the end result will be Scotland remaining. The objective of the EU is to grow, not shrink. All rules can be negotiated.
also : the EU may consider Scotland outside the EU might be even more of an encouragement to the other regions : the prospect of real indepence, quite a prize.
Scotland in the EU sends the message that indepedence isn't really that important anyway, it makes it like the proposed separation of California to form two States: an administrative change rahter than a substantive one.
But in all honesty. Scottish players playing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland would have to get non EU residency visa's.
Two differences between the UK and the rest of Europe are the approach to the benefits of the EU, and the ability to see that EU membership increases the ability of a state to exercise sovereignty.
Not every other country. What's to stop the UK gov from cutting off Scotland and let them having pure independence. Therefor withdrawing UK citizenship?
If it happens I would like it to go as well as the Czechoslovakia divorce.
Not every other country. What's to stop the UK gov from cutting off Scotland and let them having pure independence. Therefor withdrawing UK citizenship?
Well, we do have a precedent: when Ireland became independent all the Irish remained British Subjects (if they wanted to)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...lic_of_Ireland
one last point before I give myself an aneurism