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Unionists claim new figures on Scotland s notional deficit make plans to rejoin the EU highly implausible – but experts aren t convinced EUROPEAN experts have poured cold water on claims Scotland’s finances would prevent it from rejoining the EU after independence. A new study by Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) claims the country’s notional deficit – the gap between Scotland’s spending and tax revenue – has risen from 8.6% of GDP in the financial year before the pandemic to between 22 and 25% in 2020-21. Speaking earlier, IFS associate director David Phillips said Scotland is relatively rich but would start life [as an independent nation] with a large deficit .
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SNP MP Alyn Smith has branded Alex Salmond s plan not to pursue full EU membership a fantasy ALYN Smith has hit back at Alex Salmond’s “fantasy plans” for an independent Scotland to initially join the European Free Trade Association (Efta) rather than seek full membership of the EU. Smith, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster , set out his party’s views after the former first minister and Alba leader unveiled its policy on Efta and membership of the European Economic Area (EEA). Salmond said a new position on Europe was needed following Brexit and the change of circumstances since 2014 when he backed the country being in the EU as an independent member state.
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CARTER BAR, SCOTLAND - JULY 13: A general view from the view point on the A68 at Carter Bar, at the top of Redesdale in the Cheviot Hills on the border between Scotland and England on July 13, 2020 in Carter Bar, Scotland. In a TV interview on Sunday, IN the days and weeks before the worst rioting in Belfast in decades, signs appeared all over the city announcing: “Loyalists will NEVER accept a border in the Irish Sea”. They were signed: “Unionists against the Northern Ireland protocol”. Borders, real or imagined, cause trouble. And that applies to Scotland as well as Ireland.