Multinational companies are used to pondering whether to shift their headquarters from one country to another. Rarely do they worry about the country itself shifting allegiance. So, international companies based in Scotland – including blue-chips such as Standard Life, the insurer, and Cairn Energy, the oil and gas group – received a shock last week when the Scottish National party won a majority in the country’s parliament and promised a referendum on independence from England within five years.
跨国公司已经习惯于考虑将总部从一个国家迁到另一个国家。它们很少担心国家本身会变节。因此最近，当苏格兰国家党(Scottish National Party)在苏格兰议会选举中获得多数席位，承诺将在5年内进行公投，从英国独立时，震惊了总部位于苏格兰的跨国公司，其中包括保险商标准人寿(Standard Life)和油气集团Cairn Energy等蓝筹公司。
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