Officials in Brussels have contradicted Nicola Sturgeon and reiterated the EU’s policy which insists new member states must “legally commit” to join the euro single currency.
This month the first minister published an economic prospectus Scotland outside the UK which said the country would initially use the pound then switch to its own currency and then rejoin the EU. No timetables were given.
She also explicitly rejected using the euro, saying it was not “the right option for Scotland” and later cited the examples of countries in the European Union, such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden that still use their own currency.
A spokeswoman for economic affairs at the European Commission in Brussels told the Herald on Sunday: “All
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