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11.37am: If Scotland becomes independent, will it have to join the euro? Polly Curtis has been considering the matter on her Reality Check blog. Here's her verdict.There is no precedent to Scotland's position vis-a-vis the EU. By law if it is considered a new state it would have negotiate entry to the EU from scratch, although it would readily satisfy its tests having been a member already. Any new member state has to join the euro. Whether it is considered a new state or whether it would retain any of the UK's exemptions, would have to be negotiated with the 27 member states of the EU – including the remainder of the UK. 11.50am: It's time to dig out Lord Glasman's New Statesman article.
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks to troops at Fort Campbell,Kentucky,who had recently returned from Afghanistan,May 6,2011. (Mark Humphrey/AP)Biden pushed back hard. Nation building in a country as destitute and decentralized as Afghanistan,he argued,was hopeless. Besides,the Taliban didn't threaten America; al Qaeda did. And America could handle al Qaeda with a small number of Special Operations troops on the ground supporting an aggressive,drone-dominated campaign from the air. Biden called it "counterterrorism plus."Initially,Obama split the difference,sending more troops to Afghanistan than Biden wanted but fewer than Petraeus had urged and setting a deadline to begin removing them within a year.
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