CATALONIA -- Catalan News Agency - Financial Times: Spain could “consider” Scotland’s EU admission if independence process is “legal”

Catalan News Agency - Financial Times: Spain could “consider” Scotland’s EU admission if independence process is “legal”

London (ACN).- The Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said, in an interview with the Financial Times,
that Spain could “consider” the admission of an independent Scotland
within the EU. In a front-page article published in the prestigious
newspaper this Monday, Margallo argued that if the Scottish people
gained independence “in accordance with the legal and institutional
procedures”, Spain would not interfere. However, the minister warned
that the Scots would have to “join the waiting line and ask for
admission” to enter the EU, which would take months. The Financial Times
journalists, Tobias Buck from Madrid and Mure Dickie from Edinburgh,
underlined that “Margallo’s nuanced stance towards Scotland stood in
marked contrast to his uncompromising rhetoric on Catalonia”. Indeed,
the Spanish Minister “warned Catalan leaders in particular not to go
down the route of a unilateral declaration of independence”, emphasising
that the Scottish and the Catalan cases were “fundamentally different”.
The President of the Catalan People’s Party – Margallo’s party -
reacted to the interview and stated that his words had been
misinterpreted: Spain would assess Scotland’s admission but would not
approve it. 

  

The Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, a few weeks ago (by ACN)