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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11147

4 September 2014
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) scotland
Rehn says Scotland cannot join EU without its own currency

Brussels, 03/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - Finnish liberal Olli Rehn does not believe that an independent Scotland could join the European Union if it continued to use the pound sterling.

In a letter this week to British treasury director Danny Alexander, quoted in The Guardian, Olli Rehn says: “As to the question of whether 'sterlingisation' were compatible with EU membership, the answer is that this would simply not be possible, since that would obviously imply a situation where the...

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