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It certainly can but an independent Scotland would not automatically be a member of the EU. They would have had to apply for membership and even though it woul
by bhaak 4y ago
It certainly can but an independent Scotland would not automatically be a member of the EU.
They would have had to apply for membership and even though it would have certainly been speedrun (unless the UK would have been petty and tried to block their admittance) there would still have been some turmoil until they were admitted.
And now they got the turmoil without any option of being part of the EU.
Edit: proper tenses so it's clear this is with regards to how the situation was for the referendum of 2014.
- smcl 4y ago(edit: questioned the meaning of the parent comment, but they have clarified)
- soVeryTired 4y agoSpain would likely be against Scotland joining, since there’s an analogous independence movement in Catalonia that Madrid wants to suppress. Not that they’d necessarily veto, but the politics aren’t clear-cut.
- bhaak 4y agoOnly if they secede without approval of the UK. The referendum in 2014 was accepted by the government. That's something Madrid won't do. At least not within the foreseeable future.