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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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Douglas-Scott, Sionaidh funded by the government 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/scotland-eu-eleventh-hour-thoughts-contested-subject-2/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20181005-152644-0 140917 10.17176/20181005-152644-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)