GREEN freeports in the Highlands and Fife could “delay or seriously challenge” the prospect of an independent Scotland rejoining the European…
GREEN freeports in the Highlands and Fife could “delay or seriously challenge” the prospect of an independent Scotland rejoining the European Union, according to Ross Greer.MSP told The National that the EU are moving away from the freeport model and their implementation in Scotland could see the country “diverge from EU standard practice and minimum standards”.
But critics including Greer note that past experiments with freeports – including in the UK – have proven less successful. “And the more that we diverge from its standard practice and minimum standards, the harder that will be and the longer that will take.” The first freeports in the UK opened in the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher in an effort to combat de-industrialisation and a declining“Osborne acknowledged that the UK's previous attempt at freeports actually hadn't worked,” the Greens MSP said.where this is something that is being imposed without really any credible evidence base that is going to benefit anybody in Scotland.
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