However, the 110-page document does not mention that Scotland will join the eurozone: according to the program package, the British pound will remain in use in the post-independence period, but preparations will begin to create the Scottish pound and its currency. MTI wrote that its central bank.
The draft does not set a deadline for the domestication of the self-exported Scottish pound. According to the wording of the program package, this could be done “in due course”, and it would be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament to set the parameters for this “just in time”.
With the planned accession to the Schengen Area, Scotland's EU membership will be broader than Britain's EU membership, which was terminated nearly three years ago, because the UK never entered the Schengen Area.
Meanwhile, Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon stated at a press conference in Edinburgh while presenting the draft:
Scotland will also remain part of the decades-old Common Travel Area (CTA) agreement between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, which guarantees barrier-free mutual travel, meaning it is “absolutely impossible” to talk about the need for passports, for example, at the border. Scottish English.
The document also stresses that joining the EU will once again enable Scots to settle, work and study in the other 27 EU countries.
Meanwhile, the question is whether the British government will allow Scottish membership to remain within the FTA area if Scotland joins the Schengen area. Ireland did not join the Schengen Area either, precisely so it could remain part of the FTA, which has been around in various forms for nearly a hundred years.
Great Britain left the European Union on 31 January 2020, after a narrow majority of 51.89% of participants voted to leave Britain's membership of the European Union in a referendum held in the summer of 2016.
Since then, the British government has introduced new immigration regulation based on the Registration Standards System, which does not differentiate between assessing immigration applications for new arrivals from the EU and from other regions of the world.
An independence referendum was actually held in Scotland in 2014, but then 55% of participants voted for Scotland not to secede from the United Kingdom.
However, calling for a new independence referendum has been on the agenda again since the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union six years ago, after 62% of Scots voted for the UK to remain a member of the European Union in the EU referendum.
In Nicola Sturgeon's oft-expressed opinion, the result of the 2016 EU referendum also necessitated a new referendum on Scottish independence, as Scotland was “knocked out” of the EU despite its clearly stated intention to remain.
The Scottish Prime Minister has repeatedly expressed his opinion that Scotland could return to the European Union relatively quickly as an independent country.
In the summer, the Scottish government asked the British Supreme Court to rule on whether the Scottish legislature was able to enact the legislation necessary for an independence referendum without the approval of the Conservative British government, which currently adamantly refuses to repeat the referendum. Britain's highest legal forum is expected to issue its ruling on this matter within a few months.
Sturgeon declared a week ago, on the closing day of the annual conference of the independence-seeking Scottish National Party (SNP) in Aberdeen:
If the High Court finds that Parliament in Edinburgh has the capacity to make the necessary laws, another independence referendum will be held on 19 October 2023.
