Break up of the UK

[/size]Cameron and Salmond sign Scotland deal By George Parker in Edinburgh [/size]




David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, signed [color=rgb(46, 110, 158)]a referendum deal[/color]on Monday that will give Scots a vote on independence that could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom, more than 300 years after Scotland was first united with England.
The referendum will be closely watched in Europe, where the eurozone debt crisis has breathed [color=rgb(46, 110, 158)]new life into secessionist movements [/color]across the continent.
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Mr Cameron and Alex Salmond, first minister in the Scottish parliament, met in Edinburgh to sign an accord for a vote to be held in the autumn of 2014, with both leaders promising to respect the result. Mr Salmond, leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, hailed the referendum as “the most important political decision in 300 years” of Scottish history, since the mutually agreed union with England in 1707.
It will be held in a year marking the 700th anniversary of a famous Scottish victory over England at the Battle of Bannockburn, but Mr Salmond will need more than political symbolism to secure victory.
Opinion polls suggest public opposition to independence in Scotland is running at about 2:1. Asked whether the referendum deal was a political death warrant, Mr Salmond said: “I believe we will win.”

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