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MEP boost after independence

There has been much talk recently of the future relationship between an independent Scotland and the European Union.

However, one aspect of the debate appears to have been completely neglected.

Currently, Scotland – population: five million – is represented in Brussels by only six MEPs, the same number as Malta (population: 420,000). However, were Scotland to become independent and a member state of the EU in its own right, its number of MEPs would double to 12. Even the highly partisan House of Commons foreign affairs select committee admits that the "allocation of seats in the European Parliament disproportionately favours small states; thus, Scotland's MEPs would double in number".

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