The Scots have voted 62% for maintaining the UK in the European Union. After choosing the Brexit, more than half of them are in favor of a new independence referendum, according to two polls, which clearly reinforce the will of their First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to open direct negotiations with the European Union .
“the United Kingdom, for which Scotland has voted to stay in 2014 no longer exists,” insisted Nicola Sturgeon in a televised speech Sunday morning, two days after the British not to shock Europe by referendum. Going against the grain, his Scottish compatriots voted overwhelmingly for the maintenance in the European Union. So too the Northern Irishman.
Scotland wants to leave the United Kingdom
According to a survey conducted for the Sunday Times Friday and Saturday, 52% of Scots now want their country separates from the rest of the UK, and that Scotland remains a member of the European Union. Another, conducted Friday to 1600 people per ScotPulse even reaches 59% of independence, against 32% who want to stay attached to the UK and the rest undecided.
There two years, the Scottish voters rejected the Scottish independence referendum – with a comfortable majority of 55% in favor of maintaining the UK. But the new order of Brexit makes organizing new elections “highly probable,” said Nicola Sturgeon on Friday.
“It will not be a repeat of the 2014 referendum,” Has -it advanced Sunday “the context and circumstances have changed completely.” On Twitter, after the announcement of preliminary results Friday, the hashtag # indyref2 ( “independence referendum 2″) had spread like wildfire.
imminent meeting in Brussels
Meanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon promised Sunday that it would “speak to people in Brussels in the coming days.” “Our argument is that we do not want to go out, we do not want to leave then come back,” she added. “One could imagine that Scotland is treated by the EU as the successor of the UK,” said Agence France-Presse Andrew Scott, Professor of European Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
“If the independence of Scotland is before the Brexit is finalized, then Scotland could tell the European Union we are their successors, we do not leave, so we inherit the British position, with British exemptions and the British budget rebate . ” However, this would imply that things go faster, the European partners of London pressing for the country rushes to start its output negotiations.
Another option for Scotland would be to leave the European Union along with the rest of the UK, then redo the application form, and in the meantime to join the European economic Area. “This presents a number of advantages as well,” according to the expert.
“My grandchildren can not afford to be independent”
With a little more than 5 million people and a gross domestic product (GDP) of more than 200 billion euros, an independent Scotland would find quite a place in a European Union that is home to other other smaller countries, countries Baltic for example.
Manfred Weber, German MEP Christian Association of Angela Merkel and President of the Conservative caucus in the European Parliament, said on Friday, quoted by the Financial Times , that “those who wanted to stay were welcome in the EU.” But in the streets of Glasgow, all did not see the prospect of a divorce with the rest of the island with enthusiasm.
“Remember that we are an island … there is the Scotland, England and Wales on this island, “recalled Frank, 55, retired from the national insurance system disease NHS. “I am proud to be Scottish, I wanted independence, but financially, my grandchildren can not afford to be independent,” said he told Agence France-Presse.
“what we have in Scotland? We have whiskey, but the Japanese also make whiskey. We kilts, but anyone can buy a cheap kilt made in China. We have oil, it is in the cabbage, “is he wins, not convinced that the country can survive alone
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