nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181005-152644-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 140917s2014||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181005-152644-0 doi eng 342 23 Douglas-Scott, Sionaidh Author aut Scotland and the EU: Eleventh hour thoughts on a contested subject Douglas-Scott, Sionaidh Verfassungsblog 2014-09-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Is the ‘spectre of disintegration’ haunting Europe? Joseph Weiler fears that it is, and that, were an independent Scotland to be admitted as an EU state, this would lead to a domino effect whereby others would demand independence within the EU – testimony of an atavistic, retrogressive mentality, and adverse to the EU’s raison d’etre. This is a strongly put view, and not all will agree with it. Nonetheless, most of the papers in this highly stimulating symposium address, albeit in very different ways, the concern that lies at the base of Weiler’s argument – namely, the character of the EU, the nature of its values, its very reason for being. They also address the more workaday, but nonetheless critical, legal and practical issues that an independent Scotland’s membership pose. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/scotland-eu-eleventh-hour-thoughts-contested-subject-2/ raw object