Just read an article saying Scotland won’t join the EU as the EU don’t want ‘another Greece’ in its block

Yet economically joining the EU, ask how did Romania and Bulgaria recently joined and why the EU wants to expand its members by having North Macedonia and Montenegro join 🤔
You also have Serbia and Albania in accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina as a candidate for accession talks

On not wanting countries join the EU splitting from another state, ask how Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia and Slovenia have joined the EU
Former Yugoslav/Soviet nations split and joined the EU, Scotland to be the first former British nation to join the EU since the creation of the EU

A reminder that Spain will NOT veto Scotland joining as long as we gain independence through proper legal frameworks
That is the main difference to the way Spain sees Scotland and Catalonia as the Spanish government did not authorise a referendum on Catalan independence and Spain is a communal union made up of autonomous communities, unlike the U.K. which is a voluntary union
And a final point on €

It is likely when joining the EU, Scotland will have to commit to join the Euro but will not be forced to join it like Sweden

However, like Denmark, Scotland can also negotiate an opt-out deal with the EU in not joining the Eurozone
And those who want to read about EU accession, here are the 35 chapters of the acquis, not one of them mentions having a deficit that’s 3% of GDP

Otherwise Croatia 🇭🇷 Hungary 🇭🇺 and Poland 🇵🇱 would not have been EU members when they joined https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/policy/conditions-membership/chapters-of-the-acquis_en
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