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Recent Media
Recent media coverage has included Radio FM4 Austria, Le Monde, the National, German press agency DPA

Media coverage of event
SCER’s joint event with the Faculty of Advocates & European Movement in Scotland on Independence in the EU: Issues and Challenges was covered by STV, the Herald and the National

Media December 2020 & January 2021
Recent media has included interviews and analysis by Kirsty Hughes including with France24, Al Jazeera, France Public Radio, La Croix (France), Latvian Delfi, the Herald, the National

Recent Media Coverage Oct 2020
Recent media has included interviews and/or comment by Kirsty Hughes on STV, BBC Radio 4, Radio FM4 Austria and Euronews and in the Herald, the National and Le Monde.

The National
Kirsty Hughes’ SCER short policy note on prospects for independence in the EU in the wake of the Covid crisis is republished in the National

Le Monde
Kirsty Hughes is quoted in an article on the different approaches to lockdown that have emerged across the UK’s four nations

The Times Scotland
The SCER policy note by Allyson Pollock and Louisa Harding-Edgar on Scotland’s response to the Covid-19 crisis was covered in the Times – and too in the Scotsman, the National, the Daily Record, the Evening Express

The National
Kirsty Hughes asks why the Scottish government (and other devolved administrations) followed the UK government’s approach in early March, delaying lockdown, one that is now coming under growing criticism – and compares corona death rates across different smaller EU states.

The Herald
Kirsty Hughes writes a column on the EU’s response to the corona crisis so far and asks is muddling through enough?