MA: Scotland in the EU

Campaign group Yes For EU held a very successful workshop in Edinburgh to consider various themes about Scotland's future in the EU, including Association Agreements for candidate countries, the alternative option of EFTA. We also discussed areas where Scotland is at risk of diverging from the EU and where we will need to realign or create new arrangements such as borders, currency options, EU energy policy and the farm payment scheme.
If you would like to take part in the discussion topics, you are welcome to do so. You can also feed any thoughts, comments or questions to [e-mail]
Key points in the broadcast are:
00:02:28 Opening remarks and welcome
00:05:26 Heather Anderson on EU or EFTA
00:13:38 Kirsty Hughes on Association Agreements
00:31:43 Discussion question 1
00:31:53 Introduction to Borders topic
00:35:40 Common Travel Area
00:38:26 Discussion question 2
00:38:34 Introduction to Currency topic
00:41:47 Marla Dukharan on currency unions
00:47:36 Discussion question 3
00:47:46 Heather Anderson on farm payments scheme
00:56:45 Discussion question 4
00:56:58 Introduction to EU energy strategy topic
00:59:00 EU renewables strategy by Wind Europe
01:01:54 The future of interconnectors by National Grid
01:04:17 Discussion question 5
01:04:22 Key messages from the workshop
Thanks to Scotonomics for their clip of Marla Dukharan
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[@gillramsay1112]

Thank you for sharing this with us x

[@nicolass7102]

We want scotland in europe family...we want scotland back in EU

[@Sov74379]

Try to join EFTA cant join the Customs Union if you want to be a candidate and apply on the day we get Indy, the Association agreement would stop some of the blocks from the current UK, the first step to rejoining the EU joining EFTA is misleading, need a trade agreement

[@Sov74379]

OWN CURRENCY SCOTTISH POUND, OWN CENTRAL BANK , WE NEED THIS FOR TRADE AGRREMENT AND TRANSACTIONS

[@kulaprabha]

Eventually we do and for lots of other reasons than the ones you mention, but we don't need them to open negotiations with the EU and an Association Agreement as a candidate country.

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

Away with the fairies

[@kevinkevin-ug9po]

​@@user-vp9bg2il7q Explain yourself, why do you need to put stupid comments like this on?

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

You will never get independence were part of the UK so get used to it plus Scotland’s never been in theEU the UK has 😀🇬🇧

[@Sov74379]

ASAP

[@sarasalyers6707]

What a pity that the coming Freeports and SEZ's - which aren't in fact what the EU defines by those names - remove so many rights that they exclude Scotland form any possibility of EY membership while they are in place, initially 10 years.

[@Sov74379]

Sovereign Warrior ⚔ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @SovereignBain · 3m So scotland is it the EU EA 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 two different things joining EFTA we can't join the customs union rejoining the EU we are at the table for important matters, but also need a border for checks, spot checks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 fair taxation , need our own currency and central bank

[@MARINA4163]

Has anyone not noticed how autocratic the EU has become. Is it really wise for Scotland to join? The state of the EU in the face of dedollarization and gearing up for war works directly against Scottish interests. Would we not be better off joining BRICS? We will end up financing the Ukraine not least the money currently required from all EU members to pay for Ukraine’s hopeless war? The SNP must open its eyes and listen to the majority of Scots who are beginning to see the EU as a trap.

[@hashburystumble8808]

The majority of Scots still support joining the EU.

[@IndependenceLive]

Let’s do a recap on autocratic. We are currently in a union that has FPTP where votes go to die, a fully unelected House of Lords with nearly 800 members and no codified constitution. Any state can vote to leave the EU (Brexit = -5% GDP) but the English political get to decide who gets to have a vote to leave their union/UK. The EU was setup to stop European countries fighting each other and has done well so far. The EU will help protect and support its members like they did with the Republic of Ireland over their dispute with Westminster and to be honest that seems appealing for the same reason. Putin… not my favourite dictator.

[@kulaprabha]

Join BRICS? You are joking eh?

[@BobbyGardiner-zt5zp]

Will join any body other than England.

[@adrianwhyatt594]

Greece joined the EEC, predecessor to the EU, in 1981, not 1986. Some Scottish banks already have the right to issue their own £ pound notes and have already done so for decades. So, Scotland already has its own currency, the Scottish £ pound, which has been in a currency union with the English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Gibraltar pounds for a very long time, but which is free to leave. So, Scotland would not need to set up its own currency. Just decide for how long it wanted to remain in its current currency union.

[@nicolass7102]

We want scotland back in eu

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

You were never in the eu the uk was in the eu get your facts right😉🇬🇧

[@IndependenceLive]

Any state can vote to leave the EU but only the English political class gets to decide who has a vote to leave their toxic anti-democratic union.

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

@@IndependenceLive your part of the uk you can’t leave😳🇬🇧

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

😀we are 4 country’s in the United Kingdom not 65 nations if you believe your gonna get independence good for you but just remember you have never been in the eu yous think your just gonna walk in there ain’t gonna happen England Wales ulster and Scotland have never been the eu the uk has though not any of the brainwashed snp so when the talk is we will be rejoining the eu it will be as a new country then the problem will be where’s the cash to pay for it😳🇬🇧

[@IndependenceLive]

Any state can vote to leave the European Union but only one country in the UK gets to decide who can have a vote to leave the UK. Not very democratic and a slur to the people in Scotland whether you agree with Scotland regaining its independence or not. If Scotland is so poor why do you think the English political class wants to deny it holding a referendum to leave their union? See John Jappy on our channel to find out the truth.

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

It’s trus though😂🇬🇧

[@theosphilusthistler712]

Do you want to be independent, or do you want to be in the EU? Can't be both. There are no independent countries in the EU.

[@IndependenceLive]

I’ve a feeling France, Germany and every other country in the EU would disagree with you. Any state can vote to leave the EU but only the English political class get to decide which countries can leave their union. Another reason to join the EU would be that it helps protect us against Westminster just like it helped protect the Republic of Ireland.

[@theosphilusthistler712]

@@IndependenceLive Well Germany would disagree because the EU is the 4th Reich. It's Neuordnung minus the genocide. (So that's a plus). And France is the hench-state in that. Most people see the great shopping. Few see the lost freedom, and organising to get that back......

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

Yous lot are living in brigadoon 😳🇬🇧

[@IndependenceLive]

Regaining our independence for many of us means believing we can make Scotland a better place just like those people from those 65 countries who decided sovereignty was better than being governed by Westminster.

[@user-vp9bg2il7q]

@@IndependenceLive every body was asked to vote for Brexit not 1 country the problem was you all slept through the vote in Scotland 38%voted to stay in the eu that’s where the problems are each country in the uk has bigger people in them that’s why brexit happened not because Scotland voted for no brexit 62% didn’t vote so does that tell you Scotland wanted brexit and nobody could be bothered voting not too pretty damaging really😳🇬🇧