Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia are member states who have recently joined the European Union and their nationals have restricted rights to work.
As an EEA national, you do not require permission to work if you want to work in the UK and you are permitted to have your family members join you in the United Kingdom.
And now you’ve read all of that, about how Croatia first had to join the EU, and even after meeting the criteria for entry to the EEA, still requires its membership to be ratified, explain to me how Scotland will automatically join without needing to meet the criteria, have the required amendments made, or having them ratified.
The European Economic Area (EEA) consists of the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Note that Switzerland is not part of the EU or EEA but does have a bilateral agreement with the EU which provides certain rights to students.
Look it up where?. One of those sites is actually EFTA which confirms ratification.
Wiki:
As of 2014 the contracting parties to the EEA are 3 of the 4 EFTA member states and all of the EU member states. The 28th and newest EU member, Croatia, finished negotiating their accession to the EEA in November 2013,[12] and became a full member on 1st August 2014. [2][5]
The following EFTA countries are included:
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Norway
The following EU countries are included:
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
“the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland consequent to the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, and the Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway consequent to the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union”
Will apply provisionally, but every other site says they formally acceded to the EEA on August 1st.
Croatia has been a FULL member of the EC since 1st July 2013 since when it had provisional effective membership of the EEA. Since 1st August 2014it has had full membership of the EEA.
Cite 5 - the one you repeatedly quote - is the one that makes it clear it is provisional. Cite 2 shows that 2 countries have ratified it.
It will presumably be ratified eventually, and nothing much will change when it does apart from the use of the word “provisional”.
I’ll ask again, the question that lead to this and which you keep dodging - why do you think that all other countries will be on the side of Scotland should you wish to join these organisations?
Croatia became a EU member in 2013 and a full member of the EEA on the first of last month. Wiki is not perfect. Every other site says that Croatia became an EEA member in full on the first of last month.
Sorry, you’re correct there and I was mistaken about the EU. Croatia is a full member of the EU, but as I’ve repeatedly shown (and your own cite shows) it’s a provisional member of the EEA.
Please try looking up “ratification” and “provisional”, it might be possible to have meaningful discussion with you then.
Every site except the EFTA and the EEA sites… I know who I’ll be believing, and it’s not the person who’s gotten every single other point regarding international law wrong in this thread.
Again, I’ll ask, in the vain hope of an answer. If Croatia has had to jump through all these hoops to become a member of the EEA, including needing to join the EU first, why do you assume Scotland will be given a free pass? And why do you automatically assume everyone will support Scotland as an independent country, when it’s in the clear interest of several to see it fail?
Croatia was treated as if it were a full member until everything was assured about its laws complying with EU and EFTA requirements. Scotland already does because of UK laws.
Croatia became a full member of the EEA on 1st August. Some websites are yet to update.
Because Norway ratified membership in August after Iceland Liechtenstein and Switzerland had. Being the last to sign, Croatia became a full member on 1st of August.
What about the other 27 members, when did they ratify? Cite with dates, please.
Provisional member. I even posted the exact quote, and the links to the two pages, in case you were unable to click on the page and read three lines of text.