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Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) and French President Emmanuel Macron, ahead of a bilateral meeting during the G7 summit in Cornwall

National Extra The one lesson of the G7 summit? Boris Johnson must grow up and get real

THE EU-UK stand-off over the Northern Ireland protocol caused sparks at the G7 last weekend.

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'Both the Brexit vote and our election have contributed
to greater understanding and awareness of Scotland’s constitutional debate and to sympathy for Scotland’s position'

COMMENT Kirsty Hughes: This is why Scotland's EU debate needs to step up a gear

THERE has been intense European media interest in the Scottish election, driven both by interest in whether Scotland may become independent and what it means if the UK fragments. Key questions from a range of outlets focused on whether the SNP and Greens would win the election, when and how there might be a referendum, whether Yes would win, and how and whether an independent Scotland would rejoin the EU.

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Challenging questions remain on the route to, and impact of, rejoining the EU

comment These are the key questions on EU and Brexit that must be asked this election
EUROPE has not figured much yet in the Scottish election. But, given the mounting, ever more visible and entirely predictable damage from Brexit, European questions are likely to impact on voting choices and on support for independence.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond and current First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have found themselves on opposing sides

Comment How the Sturgeon-Salmond saga has affected the EU's perception of Scotland

AS the Salmond-Sturgeon saga reaches its culmination, with reports from the two inquiries due soon, how is the long-running dispute seen in the European Union, and has it impacted on views of the prospects of an independent Scotland in the EU?

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Kirsty Hughes is the director at the Scottish Centre on European Relations

COMMENT Scotland's future lies in the EU and this is how we can stay European

THE unfolding, multi-layered and predictable damage to Scotland, and the rest of the UK, from Johnson’s EU-UK trade deal is getting clearer every day. As the UK Government blusters about “global Britain”, it appears to have no strategy for its relationship with its vital partner, the European Union.

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Unionist politicians like Gordon Brown and George Osborne are struggling to come up with ideas to hold together a UK which, thanks to Brexit, already has an international border inside its own territory

National Extra Unionist panic and hypocrisy is muddying waters of Scottish independence debate

THERE is more than a whiff of hysteria in the air about the possibility of the UK fragmenting via Scottish independence and Irish re-unification.

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'Leaving the EU’s single market and customs union, with at best a few days notice of the terms on which the UK is leaving, is a recipe for a harder, more costly border'

National Extra Covid border chaos has exposed Brexiteer's 'sovereignty' as fantasy

THE European Commission on Tuesday stepped into the border chaos caused by wide-ranging EU travel bans on those coming from the UK and the French block on freight, calling for full bans to be lifted.

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'If Boris Johnson offers no compromise, the responsibility for the ensuing chaos will land at his door only'

National Extra Johnson's No-Deal Brexit will impact everything, including an indy Scotland

TIME is running out on an EU-UK trade deal. Boris Johnson’s much-hyped dinner with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday evening, made no progress at all ...

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Nicola Sturgeon was clear in her closing speech that Scotland aims for independence in the EU

NATIONAL EXTRA FM was clear Scotland aims for independence in EU but there are challenges ahead

FM was clear Scotland aims for independence in EU but there are challenges

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Pro-EU campaigners take part in a Missing EU Already rally outside the Scottish Parliament earlier this year

Comment Kirsty Hughes: Independence and the EU: where next for Scotland after Brexit?

AS EU and UK negotiators totter towards a possible deal by mid-November, the future shape of EU-UK relations starts to loom into view. A basic, thin free trade deal will take those relations down one path, a chaotic and bad-tempered No Deal down a rather different path. For now, a deal still looks more likely but is far from guaranteed.

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