According to reports Scottish independence is being featured in international media outlets (Image: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty)
Speaking to The National, he said of Nicola Sturgeon’s appearance at the Winter Nights Festival: “It is important for us to hear Scotland’s distinct position on life post-Brexit and how those bilateral ties can be maintained, even strengthened, post-Brexit.
“The First Minister’s recent opinion piece in the Irish Times was received very well.
“We in Ireland and indeed across the EU are fascinated by the internal politics in Scotland, especially following the Brexit process.”
Nicola Sturgeon profile (Image: EXPRESS)
Meanwhile SNP MP Alyn Smith has said within the EU there is an “awareness” that “Scotland is different in our attitude to the EU than the UK”.
NICOLA Sturgeon will present the case for independence at an international event organised by a major European media outlet later this month amid a growing interest overseas in Scotland’s future. The move follows increased reporting and commentary in global newspaper and television forums – including on CNN – with the nation’s constitutional debate and the tensions among the four parts of the UK since the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the eventual departure from the single market on December 31. With a series of polls showing majority of support for Scotland leaving the UK to rejoin the EU as an independent member state, the First Minister is headlining the event where she will speak on Scottish independence, Brexit and the state of the Union when she takes part in the online Irish Times’s Winter Nights Festival. She will be in conversation with the celebrated Irish Times columnist and author Fintan O’Toole.
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The SNP have pushed for a second independence vote in Holyrood ever since the UK voted to leave the EU, and have seen a growth in support as a result. Polling for much of 2020 showed consistently that over 50 percent of Scots would back Scottish secession, with some surveys putting a Yes vote as high as 58 percent. But Ms Sturgeon s plans to join the EU are now under the microscope, as some fear Scotland may have to wait years before joining. Conservative MEP from Spain, Este