"We" implies that the entire EU would have to be ready to support an expensive project. Surely Scotland cannot do it alone.
The question is whether this makes sense when Norway produces cheaper hydrocarbons just next door. The production sites there are every bit as vulnerable to Russian attacks as those next to Scotland.
I am curious, what do you think of the concept of European Federalism, to some extent?
It seems completely impossible, and yet somewhat inevitable. As I write this, I am sitting just a 30 minute drive into Silesia from the CZ border. In my car I receive PL, CZ, and DE radio stations.
The first I heard of the concept of a Federalized EU, it was from very excited international younger folks in Prague.
Federations are tricky to keep together. I witnessed the unraveling of Czechoslovakia as a teen and I was happy that it didn't end up in bloodshed, unlike Yugoslavia. There, guys of my age were spending their early youth killing other guys of my age speaking a mutually comprehensible language.
Don't push it, let it come naturally, if it does. Both CS and YU were built in a top-down fashion, without explicit consent of the nations involved, and this proved fatal eventually. Don't repeat the same mistake again.
The question is whether this makes sense when Norway produces cheaper hydrocarbons just next door. The production sites there are every bit as vulnerable to Russian attacks as those next to Scotland.