Tag: scotland

Scotland has formally asked for legal advice on its position in the European Union if it votes for independence from Britain in its 2014 referendum, the government said yesterday (23 October). 

It is too simplistic to propose that a region could simply remain in the European Union after seceding from its EU member state and that the ‘evaporation theory’ of Belgium's New Flemish Alliance cannot adequately grasp all the political and legal problems which such a scenario would entail, say Guillaume Van der Loo and Merijn Chamon.

Representatives of Europe’s wine and spirits industries have joined with the Scotch Whisky Association in a legal battle aiming to halt the minimum pricing of alcohol.

European Union membership has taken centre stage in the Scottish independence debate amidst a bitter legal wrangle about Scotland's status if it secedes from the UK following a scheduled referendum in 2014.

The debate on Scotland's relationship with the rest of the UK took another step on Tuesday (8 September), as the Scottish government published a paper in which it argues that Scotland would thrive in Europe and the international arena as an independent country.