With Brexit, the United Kingdom left the European Union. Now the Orkney Islands, one of its most remote parts is mulling break-up plans of its own.
The group of windswept islands off the coast of Scotland says it could leave the UK. The local government on the Orkney Islands says it's just not getting enough funding, and that the oil and gas-rich neighbor of Norway might be a better fit. Even if there is a consensus for reform, any change would take years.
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The group of windswept islands off the coast of Scotland says it could leave the UK. The local government on the Orkney Islands says it's just not getting enough funding, and that the oil and gas-rich neighbor of Norway might be a better fit. Even if there is a consensus for reform, any change would take years.
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