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Originally Posted by Chris
As I stated earlier, so-called "EU citizenship" is nothing of the sort. EU citizenship is a brand name for certain entitlements a citizen of France has when visiting Germany, or vice versa. If EU citizenship was essentially the same thing as true national citizenship, it would be possible to go to an EU consulate in your home country and apply for it. But you can't, because there's no such process. You can only get it as a side-effect of holding actual citizenship of a country that is a member of the EU.
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You still don't get the the benefits of EU citizenship, so why should Scots still get any benefit from UK citizenship?
How many examples are there, where part of country splits off, that citizens of the new country, automatically keep citizenship and rights of the old?