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Originally Posted by Derek
Oops. Remember how Alex 'I'm right, you're wrong' Salmond has been banging on about an independent Scotland immediately giving up a chunk of its independence by walking into the EU on its terms? It seems like the new EU boss has other ideas.
It's even funnier as a week ago they were hailing him as the greatest thing ever as he would be more receptive to iScotland and it's EU plans. Awkward.  |
I see Herr Juncker's office has
now clarified that he wasn't at any stage referencing Scotland.
"New European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker was not referring to Scotland when he said there would be no new members of the EU in the next five years, BBC Scotland has learned.
Opponents of Scottish independence had seized on his remarks to the European Parliament to back their campaign
.
They said it proved that, if Scotland were to vote to leave the UK, it would not get back into the EU before 2019.
But a spokeswoman confirmed that he was talking about countries outside the EU."