Scottish university fees are a similar system. If you are scottish, fees are government paid. The EU forbids treating direct citizens favourably vs other EU cit

Scottish university fees are a similar system. If you are scottish, fees are government paid. The EU forbids treating direct citizens favourably vs other EU citizens, therefore they were required to offer the same to citizens of other EU countries. Since the EU member was the UK, not Scotland, how they treated _other_ UK citizens was considered an internal matter. So if you were English, Welsh, Northern Irish or non-EU you had to pay, if you were Scottish or other EU nationalities you were paid for.