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Scottish nationals have two supra-national citizenships. One is UK citizenship, the second is EU citizenship. In democratic referenda over the past two years, Scots have voted clearly to retain both citizenships.
Unfortunately it is not possible to respect both democratic decisions of the Scottish people, due to a vote by other nationalities. So where you have democratic decisions which cannot both be implemented, which does democracy demand should take precedence?
It is not a simple question. The vote to retain EU citizenship was more recent and carried a much larger majority than the earlier vote. In addition it was made crystal clear during the campaign that it may require the overturning of the earlier vote. So on these grounds I believe the most recent vote must, as an exercise in democracy, have precedence.
In these circumstances the announcement by the First Minister that she is initiating the procedure on a new referendum for Scottish independence from the UK, in order to retain Scottish membership of the EU, is a sensible step.
Source: Craig Murray
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mtrycz on Saturday June 25 2016, @12:44PM
As a Pole living in Italy: What is EU citizenship?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @01:50PM
you being an EU citizen is evidenced exactly the fact that you are a pole living in Italy, and you don't need to talk to any embassy in order to do that.
try living in the US or in Switzerland, and you will immediately notice the difference.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @03:05PM
Exactly. In Switzerland you may be assaulted with cheese ... and in the US you may be used as target practice by run-of-the-mill crazies, homegrown terrorists, imported terrorists and/or law enforcement.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Saturday June 25 2016, @09:29PM
Well shit, never noticed.
My Polish passport has *both* Republic of Poland and European Union signs on it.
Well that's neat. Should have paid more attention.
As a Polish citizen I still need to ask for a "permission to stay", but the process is more straightforward (nearly automatic) than before/then what non-EU people have to go through.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @09:55PM
I think you're talking about asking city authorities, right? I'm in Germany and I only needed to deal with city hall. same was true when I lived in Belgium.