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Standing Council on Europe
First Minister forms group to advise on Scotlands relationship with the EU.
Professor Anton Muscatelli will chair a group of experts to advise the Scottish Government on securing Scotlands relationship with the EU, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today.
The Standing Council on Europe comprises specialists in legal, financial, business and diplomatic matters.
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Ms Sturgeon said:
The Scottish Governments overriding objective is to protect Scotlands relationship with and place in the European Union. The Standing Council on Europe will provide advice on how best to achieve those objectives.
More than 60% of voters in Scotland wanted to stay in the EU to protect the jobs, investment and trade that depend on it. We chose to be an open, inclusive and outward-looking society where other EU citizens are welcome to live, work and contribute, and we voted to protect the freedom and prosperity that comes with our rights to travel, live, work and study in other European countries.
We now need to set out and evaluate all the impacts of the referendum result and all of the options open to Scotland to secure our relationship with the EU. The Council draws on a breadth and wealth of knowledge and experience, comprising specialists with backgrounds in business, finance, economics, European and diplomatic matters, and it will encompass a range of political and constitutional opinions.
Members will consider the impact of proposed changes to the UKs relationship with the EU on Scottish interests and advise Ministers throughout our negotiations on the best way to secure Scottish interests and objectives.
Members invited to take part in the Standing Council include:
Chair: Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
Vasco Cal, former economic adviser at the European Commission
Sir David Edward, European Court Judge
David Frost, whisky, trade expert, former diplomat
Dame Anne Glover, former chief scientific adviser to President Barosso
Charles Grant, Centre for European Reform, London
John Kay, financial markets
Lord Kerr, diplomat, deputy chair ScottishPower, Carnegie Trust
Dame Mariot Leslie, diplomat
David Martin, MEP
Amanda McMillan, CEO Glasgow Airport
Professor Alan Miller, former chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission
Anne Richards, M&G Investments & Edinburgh University Court
Frances P. Ruane, Irish academic economist & former director of ESRI
Alyn Smith, MEP
Grahame Smith, STUC, Scotland Europa
Professor Andrew Scott, University of Edinburgh
Fabian Zuleeg, European Policy Centre, Brussels
First Minister forms group to advise on Scotlands relationship with the EU.
Professor Anton Muscatelli will chair a group of experts to advise the Scottish Government on securing Scotlands relationship with the EU, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today.
The Standing Council on Europe comprises specialists in legal, financial, business and diplomatic matters.
...
Ms Sturgeon said:
The Scottish Governments overriding objective is to protect Scotlands relationship with and place in the European Union. The Standing Council on Europe will provide advice on how best to achieve those objectives.
More than 60% of voters in Scotland wanted to stay in the EU to protect the jobs, investment and trade that depend on it. We chose to be an open, inclusive and outward-looking society where other EU citizens are welcome to live, work and contribute, and we voted to protect the freedom and prosperity that comes with our rights to travel, live, work and study in other European countries.
We now need to set out and evaluate all the impacts of the referendum result and all of the options open to Scotland to secure our relationship with the EU. The Council draws on a breadth and wealth of knowledge and experience, comprising specialists with backgrounds in business, finance, economics, European and diplomatic matters, and it will encompass a range of political and constitutional opinions.
Members will consider the impact of proposed changes to the UKs relationship with the EU on Scottish interests and advise Ministers throughout our negotiations on the best way to secure Scottish interests and objectives.
Members invited to take part in the Standing Council include:
Chair: Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
Vasco Cal, former economic adviser at the European Commission
Sir David Edward, European Court Judge
David Frost, whisky, trade expert, former diplomat
Dame Anne Glover, former chief scientific adviser to President Barosso
Charles Grant, Centre for European Reform, London
John Kay, financial markets
Lord Kerr, diplomat, deputy chair ScottishPower, Carnegie Trust
Dame Mariot Leslie, diplomat
David Martin, MEP
Amanda McMillan, CEO Glasgow Airport
Professor Alan Miller, former chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission
Anne Richards, M&G Investments & Edinburgh University Court
Frances P. Ruane, Irish academic economist & former director of ESRI
Alyn Smith, MEP
Grahame Smith, STUC, Scotland Europa
Professor Andrew Scott, University of Edinburgh
Fabian Zuleeg, European Policy Centre, Brussels
Background details on these *hack ptt* experts here: http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Standing-Council-on-Europe-25c6.aspx
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Amid chaos, Sturgeon finds time to troll Gove (Original Post)
Denzil_DC
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Denzil_DC
(7,237 posts)2. But then you're not exactly a fan of the EU anyway, are you?
Scaremongering nonsense
Iceland, Norway and Switzerland are not in the EU, yet they haven't plunged into oblivion.
If anything is a suicide pact, that would be the EU itself. It makes everyone so dependent on each other, that if one nation goes down, everyone else goes down with them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7965753
Iceland, Norway and Switzerland are not in the EU, yet they haven't plunged into oblivion.
If anything is a suicide pact, that would be the EU itself. It makes everyone so dependent on each other, that if one nation goes down, everyone else goes down with them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7965753
I could be doing you a disservice, but we've had quite a few, erm, passers-through here in the past few days, and they all seem for some reason strangely fixated on this issue and reallyreally want to tell us all about it. So I'll wait and see if you make it to ten or so posts before I invest much more in this relationship, if you don't mind ...
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(7,237 posts)4. This is getting ridic!
Nice work, MIRT.
WHY is it this issue right now that's gotten the trolls worked up? Weird.