He said that the controls could be "light" rather than "hard," similar to the border arrangement between Switzerland and France, but there was nonetheless the risk of a system which would require paperwork and delays for cars and lorries on the border. Grant said a similar system would likely apply to to the English-Scottish border. "They may be soft controls, but I think there will have to be some controls," he added. I think it's going to be very, very difficult for them to do that. She's right that the British and Irish governments are determined to find a way of avoiding customs controls on the border between the north of Ireland and the south, but they haven't found a way yet. He said: "I talked to some of the officials involved. Grant believes, however, that there will have to be an intra-Irish border. "You'd have one set of regulations in Scotland and one set in England - what does that mean for trade between England and Scotland?" The third problem, Grant said, would be the large technical difficulties that would arise from Scotland remaining in the single market while the UK was outside. Anything that could encourage the Catalans to think they could have special treatment themselves would be seen as a bad thing by the Spanish government." Technical difficulties You'd have one set of regulations in Scotland and one in England - what happens if a company is partly English and partly Scottish? The Spanish - and a number of others - are very sensitive on regional questions.
"There isn't any provision in the EU's governance for de facto treaties which give regions a special status or standing within member states, or indeed states outside the EU.
"They believe the building bloc of the EU is the nation state," he said. Grant said that the second principal difficulty of Sturgeon's proposal would be objections from UK's European partners. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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