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My point being, that scaremongering about Scotland not being fast tracked backed into the EU is very similar to the false arguments used at the referendum. Thi
by randomsearch 4y ago
My point being, that scaremongering about Scotland not being fast tracked backed into the EU is very similar to the false arguments used at the referendum.
This is a country that has already been in the EU, was dragged out against its wishes, and now wants to rejoin. It will not be a normal accession process.
Ignoring that fact, the EU has a huge political incentive to ease Scotland’s re entry wrt the English situation.
Ironically, I expect it will be England that ensures the fast tracking by making it impractical for Scotland to retain the pound, forcing them to adopt the euro.
- physicsguy 4y agoTo join the Euro, Scotland would need to go through a process whereby it pinned it’s currency to the Euro and kept it stable for a period of time. To do that, it would need control of the currency and a central bank. That all takes time. The UK famously failed to keep the Pound in the ERM because of currency speculators, with much greater financial resources than a post-independence Scotland would have available.
- randomsearch 4y agoI think you’re blindly applying standard process to an exceptional situation. In politics, anything is possible, it depends solely on the circumstances and incentives involved. If England make it impractical for Scotland to adopt the pound, then the EU will welcome them with open arms into the euro. That’s just how the world works, states act in their own interests and rules bend as and when needed (as rules on euro membership have frequently been bent in the past).