{"id":16539,"date":"2013-08-28T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=16539"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:19:15","slug":"quotation-ci-scotland-eu-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=16539","title":{"rendered":"Scotland, EU &#038; Democracy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>What The Scottish Independence<br \/>\nReferendum Means To Europeans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we should follow and sympathize with what is taking place in Scotland, because it concerns us all. Getting the government you have voted for, finding new ways to exert self-determination in the face of increasing depletion of democracy, rethinking the concept of community by recognizing the internal pluralities and resisting the reduction of citizens to mere economic agents, making our social model fairer, more inclusive and universal, reconsidering the sense and purpose of military defence today, and renegotiating the existing institutional arrangements, if necessary, to make them more democratic\u2013 all this is not a matter for the Scots only, but has a bearing, to a greater or lesser extent, on all our societies. In particular it constitutes the crux of questions that have to be dealt with at the European level if we are to relaunch the European federalist project on a sounder basis and give democracy in Europe a new lease of life. It would greatly benefit both the Scottish people and other Europeans if they could engage in a constructive, meaningful dialogue on such issues. Sovereignty (and its limits), self-determination, democracy, community, social justice \u2013 you can hardly escape from dealing with all that. Whether you want to (re)build an independent nation or build a European federation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Francesca Lacaita, Italian Government Lector at the University of St Andrews, <a title=\"SEJ: What The Scottish Independence...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.social-europe.eu\/2013\/08\/what-the-scottish-independence-referendum-means-to-europeans\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+social-europe%2FwmyH+%28Social+Europe+Journal%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Social Europe Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"F\u00fcr eine Europ\u00e4ische Republik.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=24582\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Mehr Kleinstaaten \u2014 mehr Integration!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=20756\"><code>02<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Regionen unter EU-Dach.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=29804\"><code>03<\/code><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\">||<\/span> <a title=\"Why Europe should welcome a referendum in Catalonia.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=34913\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What The Scottish Independence Referendum Means To Europeans [&#8230;] In any case, we should follow and sympathize with what is taking place in Scotland, because it concerns us all. Getting the government you have voted for, finding new ways to exert self-determination in the face of increasing depletion of democracy, rethinking the concept of community [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entity-eu","issue-quotation","location-schottland","language-english","topic-democrazia","topic-foederalismus","topic-medien","topic-mitbestimmung","topic-politik","topic-recht","topic-selbstbestimmung","topic-soziales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77906,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions\/77906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}