‘Independent Scotland beneficial for EU’

April 29th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond says an oil-rich independent Scotland would be beneficial for the 28-nation European Union.

Salmond said on Monday that Scotland would be a more productive member of the EU than an unenthusiastic Britain due to a number of reasons including its energy reserves and fishing grounds.

“Scotland has one of the largest national shares of Europe’s total fishing grounds.12 national fleets fish in our waters. Yet we have less formal say in fisheries policy than landlocked countries such as Austria and Slovakia! Independence will change that. It allows Scotland to develop and pursue clear priorities – such as energy and climate change, the environment, agriculture, fisheries, research, digital technology and the creative industries,” he said.

“We will set our own priorities, build our own alliances, and put forward our own positive vision of Europe,” Salmond added.

During a speech at the College of Europe in Bruges concerning Scotland’s position in the EU, Salmond dismissed as “absurd” the notion that Scotland would need to re-apply to join the EU.

Salmond said the biggest threat to Scotland’s future in the EU did not rise from the upcoming independence referendum, but from Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to allow a UK vote in 2017 on whether to remain an EU member.

“Because of the rising influence of a virulent strain — not just of Euroscepticism, but of Europhobia – at Westminster, it now poses a real threat to Scotland’s place in Europe,” he said.

“Today Britain sits at the margins of European influence, and if Scotland remains governed from London we face the prospect of an in/out referendum on whether to be part of the European Union at all. It is conceivable that unless we choose to change our circumstances this September we could be dragged out of the European Union against our will,” Salmond added.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that because of stretched out and complicated negotiations required to join the EU, Scotland could end up in a bad position.

Scotland is to hold a referendum in September 2014 on independence from Britain.

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