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"Hard" Brexit, a new window for independent Scotland to stay in the EU?
  • The SNP party is preparing a second referendum on Scottish independence. They need foreign help.
Iosu Alberdi Atxurra @atxurraa 2017ko urtarrilaren 26a
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The UK Supreme Court ruled on 24 January that parliamentarians have a role to play in launching Brexit. 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. The article, which makes it possible to leave the European Union, is the subject of debate these days and the court's decision also affects Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales: They have been denied the opportunity to decide on Brexit.

Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was time for Scots to make decisions about their future: “It is becoming increasingly clear that this is a choice that Scotland must make.” However, Sturgeon has already revoked the possibility of a second referendum in 2017.

Until we know whether the idea of a “hard” Brexit, that is, the exit from the common market takes place, no door to the referendum will be opened. Voters with doubts would not appear in favor of the referendum until this is confirmed, according to New Statesman.

The self-proclaimed Scottish government within the European Union would like to gain independence before Brexit takes place, perhaps in 2018. Today there are 44% of Scottish independence supporters. SNP, however, expects these numbers to rise through the campaign.

It should be noted that Scotland's profits from its economic relations with the rest of the United Kingdom are four times those of the other Member States of the European Union. The main economic ally of the Union is the Spanish State, which can campaign against the independence of Scotland due to the independence process of Catalonia.

Ireland would be the second and the SNP has a good relationship with the local government. Finally, Germany. The Scots feel that the Germans are satisfied with the situation in which they find themselves. The president of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, said after the Brexit vote: “Those who want to stay are welcome in the European Union.” Gunther Krichbaum, President of the German Affairs Committee for the European Union, also used similar words.