{"id":1849,"date":"2014-08-25T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=1849"},"modified":"2014-08-25T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:43:25","slug":"why-the-french-government-doesnt-want-a-yes-vote-in-the-scottish-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"Why the French Government doesn’t want a \u00ab\u00a0Yes\u00a0\u00bb Vote in the Scottish Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a useful article by journalist Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris on why the French government doesn’t want a \u00ab\u00a0yes\u00a0\u00bb vote in the upcoming Scottish referendum.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/w ww.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-28739399<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Nothing unites different nations quite like mutual enemies. But the \u00ab\u00a0Auld Alliance\u00a0\u00bb between Scotland and France – both historic rivals of England – doesn’t mean that the French government favours Scottish independence. Far from it.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0France is not Spain, where the precedent Scotland might set for Catalonia is very real. Here the regions make a lot of noise, but there is no risk of separation.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00ab\u00a0No, for France the argument against Scottish independence is our dream of a strong United Kingdom, fully engaged in Europe, whose purpose is to counter-balance a Germany that gets more powerful every year.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Anything that detracts from that strong United Kingdom – as Scottish independence would do – goes against French ambitions in Europe.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a useful article by journalist Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris on why the French government doesn’t want a \u00ab\u00a0yes\u00a0\u00bb vote in the upcoming Scottish referendum. http:\/\/w ww.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-28739399 \u00ab\u00a0Nothing unites different nations quite like mutual enemies. But the \u00ab\u00a0Auld Alliance\u00a0\u00bb between Scotland and France – both historic rivals of England – doesn’t mean that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,220,230,203,1],"tags":[223,372],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menzies-campbell-no-to-independence","category-mess-of-union","category-problem-of-scotland","category-scottish-independence","category-welcome","tag-french-politics","tag-scottish-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}