A FORMER European Commission director has dismissed suggestions that Scots will be deprived of European Union citizenship if they vote for independence.
David Grant Lawrence, a former EC director, speaking at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the UK's membership of the EU in Edinburgh, said it is "hard to envisage" Scots' EU citizenship being revoked.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said earlier this week that if Scotland votes to leave the UK it will also leave the EU.
EC president Jose Manuel Barroso has said any new independent state would have to apply for EU membership.
The Scottish Government says Scotland would nego-tiate a seamless transition into the EU in the 18 months between the referendum and its proposed independence day in 2016.
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