EghtesadOnline: Scotland is caught between a rock and a hard place. After choosing to stay part of Britain in a Scottish independence referendum in 2014, most of its citizens voted to remain in the European Union in the U.K.’s Brexit ballot last June.

EghtesadOnline: The Scottish parliament on Tuesday backed a bid to hold a new independence referendum in 2018 or 2019, but the British government immediately rejected the proposal.