Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addresses the audience at the Residence Palace in Brussels on June 2, 2015. Virginia Mayo /Press Association. All rights reserved.As the UK descends into extraordinary political and economic chaos, with no political leadership visible anywhere in Westminster, what are the options for Scotland to stay in the European Union or at least as integrated with it as possible?
Nicola Sturgeon – the only UK political leader who appears to have done serious contingency planning for a Brexit vote – has put the option of an independence referendum on the table, which she says would need to happen before the UK pulled out of the EU.
Yet many are also asking whether there are other ways Scotland could remain integrated with the EU, even if England and Wales – with or without Northern Ireland – detach from Europe.
