{"id":18382,"date":"2014-02-21T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=18382"},"modified":"2022-07-08T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T19:35:08","slug":"quotation-cxxv-barroso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=18382","title":{"rendered":"Barroso &#038; Scotland."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Die grunds\u00e4tzlich unionistisch eingestellte britische Zeitschrift <em>The Economist<\/em> in ihrer diesw\u00f6chigen Ausgabe \u00fcber die neulichen Aussagen von EU-Kommissionspr\u00e4sident Jos\u00e9 Manuel Dur\u00e3o Barroso:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a visit to London last weekend, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, delivered an even harsher blow. He said it would be \u201cextremely difficult, if not impossible\u201d\u009d for Scotland to secure the agreement of the 28 other countries to join the EU. One reason, he added, was opposition from Spain, the most intransigent of the five EU members that still refuse to recognise the independence of Kosovo. Mr Barroso claimed he did not want to interfere in the Scottish debate but that is what he did\u2014and he may have gone too far. As the man who runs the commission, he is entitled to set out his views of European law. But he should not judge the likelihood of a successful application, speak on behalf of Spain, or suggest that peaceful referendums in western Europe are equivalent to the violent break-up of a Balkan country. After all, the commission\u2019s job is to assess accession applications impartially.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Der Autor des Artikels erkl\u00e4rt Barrosos Angst vor einer Abspaltung Schottlands unter anderem damit, dass dieser wohl bef\u00fcrchte, der EU-kritischere Rest des Vereinigten K\u00f6nigsreichs k\u00f6nnte (ohne Schottland) 2016 eher f\u00fcr einen Austritt aus der Union votieren.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">C\u00ebla enghe:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"\u00bbFl\u00fcgge \u2014 und dann?\u00ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=14640\" rel=\"\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\">||<\/span> <a title=\"Schottinnen meinen: Better together.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=20858\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a> <a title=\"Schottland ist drau\u00dfen.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=62774\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>02<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die grunds\u00e4tzlich unionistisch eingestellte britische Zeitschrift The Economist in ihrer diesw\u00f6chigen Ausgabe \u00fcber die neulichen Aussagen von EU-Kommissionspr\u00e4sident Jos\u00e9 Manuel Dur\u00e3o Barroso: On a visit to London last weekend, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, delivered an even harsher blow. He said it would be \u201cextremely difficult, if not impossible\u201d\u009d for Scotland to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entity-eu","issue-quotation","location-alba","location-kosovo","location-united-kingdom","language-deutsch","language-english","medium-the-economist","person-jose-barroso","topic-democrazia","topic-mitbestimmung","topic-politik","topic-selbstbestimmung"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barroso &amp; Scotland. - BBD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=18382\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barroso &amp; Scotland. - BBD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Die grunds\u00e4tzlich unionistisch eingestellte britische Zeitschrift The Economist in ihrer diesw\u00f6chigen Ausgabe \u00fcber die neulichen Aussagen von EU-Kommissionspr\u00e4sident Jos\u00e9 Manuel Dur\u00e3o Barroso: On a visit to London last weekend, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, delivered an even harsher blow. 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