{"id":4332,"date":"2020-03-08T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2020-03-08T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:22:21","slug":"unanimous-approval-for-scotland-would-be-unlikely-says-barroso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4332","title":{"rendered":"Unanimous approval for Scotland would be unlikely, says Barroso"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Unanimous approval for Scotland would be unlikely, says Barroso<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Spain could veto EU membership. <\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Dave Keating<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2014-02-19T21:05:00+00:00\">2\/19\/14, 9:05 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-08-06T17:42:23+00:00\">8\/6\/14, 5:42 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>It was no accident when Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, told the BBC last weekend that unanimous approval for European Union membership for an independent Scotland would be \u201cextremely difficult, if not impossible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An aide to Barroso told European Voice this week that an answer had been prepared to questions on the subject, and Barroso\u2019s spokeswoman said on Monday that his words were \u201csimple and clear\u201d. But she added that the Commission is not preparing an assessment of the Scottish independence scenario, because no member state government has asked it to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Barroso suggested in a television interview that Spain might veto the accession, pointing out that Spain has opposed recognition of Kosovo since it split from Serbia in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>John Swinney, Scotland\u2019s finance minister, described the comments as \u201cpretty preposterous\u201d, underlining that \u201cScotland has been a member of the EU for 40 years\u201d. The devolved Scottish government, controlled by the Scottish National Party, has repeatedly insisted that if the country obtained independence, it would not have to apply for EU membership, and would become an EU member state within 18 months of a \u2018Yes\u2019 vote in the referendum scheduled for September.<\/p>\n<p>With or without Scotland, the place of the United Kingdom itself within the EU remains the subject of hot dispute, and Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, suggested on Monday (17 February) the need for a \u2018United States of Europe\u2019 \u2013 which would not include the UK. Speaking at Cambridge University, she urged the \u201cstrong case for a true fiscal and ultimately political union\u201d among members of the single currency, and she invoked Winston Churchill in support of her argument that the UK would be merely \u201ca close ally with the federated eurozone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe eurozone members must acknowledge the need to find solutions where their interests are different from those of the member states who do not share the single currency,\u201d she said. \u201cOtherwise, they risk pushing the UK out of the EU before it decides of its own accord, as it might, to jump.\u201d While eurozone members\u2019 ultimate goal is to ensure the stability of the euro, she said, \u201cfor member states outside the eurozone, their main interest may lie elsewhere \u2013 for instance in preserving the single market for all 28 EU countries and their unimpeded access to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tensions this is likely to create will grow as integration of the eurozone advances, she predicted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u00a0<\/strong>The worst flooding to hit the United Kingdom in decades has caused an estimated \u00a3600 million (\u20ac728 million) in damage, and prompted severe criticism of the government\u2019s response. Dissatisfaction could influence the European Parliament election on 22 May, particularly since some of the worst affected areas have traditionally been strongholds of the governing Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll put support for the opposition Labour party at 35%, ten points ahead of the Conservatives \u2013 who were only just ahead of the UK Independence Party, with support from 20% of respondents.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Dave Keating<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.rwcstore.com\/nrl-telstra-premiership.html' title='NRL Telstra Premiership'>NRL Telstra Premiership<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unanimous approval for Scotland would be unlikely, says Barroso Spain could veto EU membership. European Voice By Dave Keating 2\/19\/14, 9:05 PM CET Updated 8\/6\/14, 5:42 PM CET It was no accident when Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, told the BBC last weekend that unanimous approval for European Union membership for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}