Representatives of Germany‘s governing parties and ministries took this occasion to openly applaud the Scottish nationalists‘ secessionist efforts and thus promote the disintegration of an officially allied country. Already on June 26, 2016, Gunther Krichbaum (CDU), Chairman of the Bundestag‘s Committee for the Affairs of the European Union declared that he expected that a new referendum on Scotland‘s secession would be „successful“ and that the country would remain within the EU.