Scotland should ‘not delay’ joining EU after indy, Spanish MEP says

A SPANISH Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has expressed sympathy towards Scotland rejoining the European Union (EU).

Domenec Ruiz Devesa is a Spanish MEP and is part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. He is also president of the Union of European Federalists, a movement which promotes the creation of a European federal state based on the idea of unity in diversity.

Speaking on The National’s Our Friends in Europe podcast with columnist Assa Samake-Roman, Devesa said he could see Scotland rejoining the EU, as Brexit was “not exactly what they voted for”.

In the 2016 Brexit referendum, Scotland voted by 62% to remain in the EU, compared to the UK’s overall remain vote of 46.6%.

Devesa compared Scotland’s situation with the UK with Catalonia’s relationship with Spain, adding that it shows “how different the two places are”.

“Scotland was able to vote about whether to remain part of the UK or not, in a referendum that was agreed and developed within the constitutional wording of the UK,” Devesa said.

“That was, I think, a legal expression of the view of the Scottish people.

“In Catalonia in 2017 we had a referendum called by the Catalan government of the time without really following