nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181005-152719-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 140912s2014||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181005-152719-0 doi eng 342 23 Closa Montero, Carlos Author aut Scotland and the EU: Comment by CARLOS CLOSA Closa Montero, Carlos Verfassungsblog 2014-09-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier No one disagrees that an independent Scotland qualifies for EU membership and that it would no doubt become an EU member state. Why then is there so much normative argument around “seamless transition”? It may or may not happen and, should it come it pass, I believe that it may be a good thing, albeit that I fail to see a “normative” case which supports it. Why should third parties guarantee to a self-determining self that its constitutive decision will be costless regardless of any other consideration? This would deprive citizenship of an essential responsibility for decisions taken which I consider indispensable to democracy. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/scotland-eu-comment-carlos-closa/ raw object