We are Europeans from across the continent and around the world. / We want the people of Scotland to know that Europeans everywhere would welcome them back in the European Union if this is still their democratic wish.

The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.

ADVANCE notice is given of an important online event to discuss how an independent Scotland could make its way back into the European Union.

Brexit is now a reality: since the start of this year, the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union. In Scotland, which voted against leaving the EU in 2016, there are intense debates about when and how the Scots can re-join the continental bloc. However, Scotland could only do that by becoming an independent country, a prospect that could be closer than we think.

‘It gives the Australians the ability to say, ‘we’ll dig in – here are our terms, but we’re not going to budge’.

Across the world, there is incomprehension at what we have done to ourselves.

A NEW report has shown that the UK government’s prospective Free Trade Agreements are projected to only add between 0% and 0.16% to the UK’s Gross Domestic Product, up to fifteen years after their implementation.

“If Westminster maintains its control, recent history shows what Scotland can expect: an economic recovery hindered by a hard Brexit that is already taking a significant toll and the continued, systematic undermining of devolution, which is weakening our parliament’s powers to maintain food and environmental standards and protect the NHS from post-Brexit trade deals."

ONE third of Scots say empty supermarket shelves and closed petrol station forecourts boost the case for Scotland to restore freedom of movement with the EU as an independent nation.

No one expected the disengagement of the United Kingdom from the European Union, known as Brexit, to be simple. But the deal, reached at the very last moment in December 2020, has raised significant issues for the British government. Recent weeks have seen renewed calls for independence in Scotland, while Northern Irish Unionists want to challenge the Brexit deal in court. What happens next?

Five years ago Wednesday, Britons voted in a referendum that was meant to bring certainty to the U.K.’s unsettled relationship with its European neighbors, but it most certainly did not

Even the keenest Brexiteer must feel that the process has been tortuously long. / That has been, in large part, because successive British governments have refused to accept the trade-off between untrammelled sovereignty and friction-free access to the EU’s single market, a refusal that shapes today’s increasingly testy relationship.

THE SNP’s Westminster leader has made a plea to Scots who are undecided on independence as the consequences of Brexit become more apparent.

Ex-PM joins fellow former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith in raising concerns over the potential break-up of the United Kingdom.

Salmond row has ‘not made much difference’ to independence support, polling expert Sir John Curtice says.

The SNP is likely to win a resounding victory in the Scottish Parliament elections. How long can London hold off a second independence referendum?

THE CLAIM: "Any country joining the European Union must have a fiscal deficit at 3% or below. With the Scottish deficit at almost 8% the SNP must outline how Scotland could join the European Union as an independent country."

THE Union has been doomed for a century and Scotland will gain ­independence within five years, according to a bestselling historian.

Scottish independence offers the only way back for the country to rejoin the European Union, the Scottish Greens have claimed.

Philip Rycroft, the former Permanent Secretary for the DExEU ... discusses the 2016 EU referendum, the possibility of Scotland gaining independence

The former UK Ambassador to the EU, Ivan Rogers, explains why even Brexiteers are dismayed over Brexit.

The breakup of the UK has been described as the “most likely” form of “constitutional watershed” from Brexit according to a politics professor.

Northern Ireland, food prices, the ease of a deal - it turns out that many of the claims made by those advocating Brexit were not quite true...

rexit is still influencing constitutional issues in the UK, with ‘Remainers’ increasingly unhappy with and mistrusting the government, an event discussing the National Centre for Social Research’s (NatCen’s) British Social Attitudes report has heard.

The Scottish Government has signalled its intention for Scotland to re-join the EU as an independent nation. / Brexit has been labelled as an “ongoing, cumulative calamity” – one year on from the UK cutting ties with the EU.