nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181005-163432-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 140908s2014||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181005-163432-0 doi eng 342 23 Murkens, Jo Eric Khushal Author aut Scotland and the EU: Comment by JO MURKENS Murkens, Jo Eric Khushal Verfassungsblog 2014-09-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Sionaidh Douglas-Scott’s reliance on Article 48 is far from persuasive on technical legal grounds (is it the correct legal basis to accommodate a new Member State?) as well as for strategic reasons (the negotiation process may well be dominated by the UK’s negotiating team pursuing its own agenda). But even if an independent Scotland’s continued membership in the EU were ‘smooth and straightforward’, Douglas-Scott provides no answer to the question as to what kind of member an independent Scotland would be. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/scotland-eu-comment-jo-murkens-2/ raw object