Rumncoke. The problem is it is a precedent so it will be tested. Jose Manuel Barroso refused to comment on Scotland specifically but claimed that a new state would negotiate from outside of the EU. It is not his choice to make but is his opinion. However that has been refuted from various quarters. The UK govt's own report commissioned from Prof James Crawford confirmed that Scotland would renegotiate terms but that it would be done from within the EU as we are existing members and that though it wasn't an automatic shoe in it should be straightforward and completed within an 18 mth time scale. Closer to the SNP's claims than it is to the UK gvt's claims or to Borroso's view. Prof David Edward a former judge on the European Court of Justice stated that "Scotland's continued membership of the EU is beyond question". whilst just today in the Scotsman Lord Malloch Brown the former deputy secretary general of the UN and senior Foreign Office diplomat under Brown writes that an independent Scotland would be welcomed at the EU table and that Europe sees its difficulties not with Edinburgh but with London.