Scotland at the Crossroads between the European Union and the United Kingdom

• Authors: Tomasz Czapiewski

Abstracts

EN

Scottish Independence Referendum will take place on 18 September 2014. There would be only one question during referendum: “Should Scotland be an independent country? The reform of devolution established by Scotland Act 2012 is sometimes overlooked by observers as too little too late. The most principal issues of the referendum will be: economy, oil resources, currency, defense and European Union. Main doubt around referendum is whether Scotland would be better economically after Independence. Scotland’s position within the EU is likely to be shaped more by any agreements between the parties than by pre-existing principles of EU law. Doubts about Scottish membership in the EU have to be viewed in the context of the referendum on the UK’s membership in the European Union, that will take place if the Conservative Party wins the 2015. British political class have always behaved differently towards the European integration than continental elites The importance of the European dimension of the Scottish Independence Referendum was proved by Panelbase poll in May 2013.

Keywords

EN

United Kingdom; Scotland; devolution; political systems; referendum

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 29-43

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Tomasz Czapiewski

• University of Szczecin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201302

Biblioteka Nauki

2032300