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Originally Posted by Itse
It's not like Scotland is voting on starting a civil war. Most things will be as they are now until they are changed, which will take time. It's going be at least a decade before things start to look significantly different. And since stability is in the interest of all business, I don't see the UK government creating that much trouble either. After all, both sides will have CEO's to answer to, and all the CEO's will want everything to go as smoothly and uneventfully as possible, because business.
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Re: head offices. While it is possible that things remain unchanged, I think you may be overconfident. One needs only to look at the decline of Montreal's corporate climate as major companies that bailed on Montreal and moved to Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver starting in the aftermath of Quebec's 1995 referendum. While Scotland could be smarter than Quebec and opt against adopting business-hostile practices, the general uncertainty is likely to have some impact.
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
You cannot join the EU or adopt the euro without having your own currency, central bank and meeting stringent economic tests, mostly around public debt.
They have establish themselves first before they can join.
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There is some amusing idiocy on the EU's behalf contained in that statement. A nation must spend time, money and effort to build up a currency, just so they can gain the ability to abandon it for the Euro?