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Re:Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU me... by jcfrei on Saturday June 25, 2016 @02:05PM (#11977277)
Why should Scotland join the Euro? As you've outlined it's not in their interest.
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Re:Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU me... by jacalata on Saturday June 25, 2016 @02:10PM (#11977301)
All recent new members have been required to, I believe.
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Re:Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU me... by JakeColtman on Saturday June 25, 2016 @02:27PM (#11977373)
Confirming source here http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/adoption/index_en.h...

There's an interesting question around the fact that the UK has an opt out of the Euro.

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Re:Sturgeon seeks Brussels talks to protect Scotland's EU me... by nazgob on Saturday June 25, 2016 @03:19PM (#11977582)
Yes but no. There is no deadline. So if you don't wait it, you can just delay it forever. Many countries does just that. Others like Poland, even if they would want to join, have national currently enforced in constitution and changing that is super hard.
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