By a Newsnet reporter
The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, has made a rare statement on EU citizenship for Scots or any other nation or region within the EU which gains independence from the state which currently governs it.
Italian federalist politician Mara Bizzotto asked Mr Barroso if “regional citizens” would immediately lose their status as EU citizens, and the resultant rights and obligations, if the “region” secedes from the member state.