MA: Scotland in the EU

Campaign group Yes For EU held a very successful workshop in Edinburgh to consider various themes about Scotland's future in the EU, including Association Agreements for candidate countries, the alternative option of EFTA.  We also discussed areas where Scotland is at risk of diverging from the EU and where we will need to realign or create new arrangements such as  borders, currency options, EU energy policy and the farm payment scheme.

If you would like to take part in the discussion topics, you are welcome to do so.  You can also feed any thoughts, comments or questions to [email protected]

Key points in the broadcast are:

00:02:28   Opening remarks and welcome

00:05:26   Heather Anderson on EU or EFTA

00:13:38    Kirsty Hughes on Association Agreements

00:31:43    Discussion question 1

00:31:53    Introduction to Borders topic

00:35:40 Common Travel Area

00:38:26    Discussion question 2

00:38:34     Introduction to Currency topic

00:41:47     Marla Dukharan on currency unions

00:47:36     Discussion question 3

00:47:46     Heather Anderson on farm payments scheme

00:56:45     Discussion question 4

00:56:58     Introduction to EU energy strategy topic 

00:59:00     EU renewables strategy by Wind Europe

01:01:54     The future of interconnectors by National Grid

01:04:17     Discussion question 5

01:04:22     Key messages from the workshop

Thanks to Scotonomics for their clip of Marla Dukharan

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