Catalans Want Scotland Yes to Force EU on Independence
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Catalan President Artur Mas said he wants Scots to vote in favor of independence in their Sept. 18 referendum, because that would spur the European Union to consider ways to keep breakaway nations within the bloc.
“My personal preference as a Catalan citizen and a European citizen would be for a vote in Scotland for independence,” Mas, 58, said in an interview yesterday in the 15th-century government palace in Barcelona, the Catalan capital. “If independence goes on, they will have to negotiate with the European Union the terms of the situation of Scotland in the European Union, and that would be useful for Catalonia.”