“Independence,” Nicola Sturgeon said, “would allow us to protect our place in Europe.” But as with so much to do with the European Union, things are nowhere near as simple as that. Would an independent Scotland be allowed to join the EU?
“Independence,” she said on Wednesday in Holyrood, “would allow us to protect our place in Europe.”
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