Scotland and the EU: Comment by CARLOS CLOSA Closa Montero, Carlos Author aut Text xx# 2014 Verfassungsblog 2014-09-12 eng
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 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Closa Montero, Carlos funded by the government 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/scotland-eu-comment-carlos-closa/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20181005-152719-0 140912 10.17176/20181005-152719-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)