He also said Alba would allow for “an eventual referendum on an EU return in the future”. Alba s potential plan would see an independent Scotland part of the EEA and the EFTA which gives it full access to the EU single market, guaranteeing very limited restrictions to trade with the EU. In return, it would be similar to Norway in that it makes substantial contributions to the EU budget and has to follow many EU rules and laws, but it has no say in how those rules are formed. The SNP have a different strategy as, like Alba, they want an an independent Scotland to stay in the single market but they are critical of EEA membership.
Letters: Sturgeon needs to learn humility and admit mistakes
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How Scots and Catalans are looking to each other to ease their independence woes
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AN independence referendum called without Westminster consent could be both illegal and constitutional, a leading politics expert claims. Aberdeen University’s Professor Michael Keating says a “paradox” means a ballot called by Edinburgh alone could be legally illegitimate and constitutionally sound at the same time due to the way UK rules are drawn up. And he says these rules must be changed “if the UK is to survive as a union of nations rather than a decentralised unitary state”. Keating – who will next month release his new book State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union – makes the claim in a new piece for the Scottish Centre on European Relations (SCER) think tank.