A clear majority of Danes are against joining the euro, despite widespread approval of the move last month. According to a survey by Danske Bank, 55 percent would vote against adopting the shared currency if a referendum were held today. In an almost complete reversal of the last survey in March, only 43 percent June respondents would vote in favour.
The figures demonstrate the largest opposition to the euro seen since the 2000 referendum, when 53 percent of Danes were against signing up. At this point, almost 47 percent were keen to join the common currency.
“An obvious explanation is that for the Danes, the euro resembles a project that has failed. There is no wish to be bound to Greece. The euro is a sinking ship – and with the Danish krone we have our own little boat to sail away in. That is an option Danes want to maintain,” said Aarhus University EU expert Derek Beach in a report by Politiken.
Beach went on to say that the Danes are also worried about the effect that joining the euro would have on Danish economic policy.
“If the euro is to be saved, then reforms are necessary. That probably means that the economic side of the euro has to be developed. Like introducing strict rules for the monetary policy that governments can carry out in their countries. This could, for example, be that the Commission must approve budgets, and Danish opposition can be an expression of an opposition to that sort of outside meddling,” he said.
Both the parliamentary majority and the Danish government are in favour of joining the eurozone, but any decision can only follow a referendum. Plans for a public vote on the issue during the current electoral period have, however, been dropped.
As well as choosing to opt out of the European Monetary Union so far, Denmark also keeps its distance from the wider EU in several other areas of cooperation, such as defence, home affairs and justice.
As my grandfather would say every time I visited him in Hammelev, Danske Kroner no option we stay withe the Danske kroner.
I marvel that this Euro catastrophe is even worth debating in Denmark. The entire concept of a stateless currency should be rebuked and repudiated with the strongest language possible. Kick the Euro while it’s on the ropes! Laws with teeth to prohibit such betrayal of sovereignty must be passed immediately in Copenhagen. This is not a time for Danish politicians to wring their hands and deliver milquetoast comments, like the delicate but vindictive Eurogarchs in Brussels.
The underlying goals of the Euro serve a malicious globalist agenda that benefits no one except the global bankers. The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of England, Crown of England, Crown of The Netherlands,… name your favorite criminal enterprise. These gilded crime syndicates are the sole winners of such experiments like the Euro!
The Eurogarchs, in conjunction with the Globalists in the U.S.A, have no intention of making the Euro or any global currency a benefit to anyone outside their guild. Denmark must make its stand right here. I’d love to see Denmark, along with its commonwealth partners, pull out of the EU entirely. Denmark existed before the EU and it will exist without the EU. The entire global criminal enterprise is falling apart and Denmark must not be sucked into the maelstrom.
“What have they got to offer the EU people?
Will we the EU people benefit anything by the Dannes joining?”
Denmark is already in the EU, the discussion is about the Euro.
Denmark offers a stable and solid economy with the ability help to bail out the PIIGS.
Not surprisingly, that’s not a prospect they welcome. Better to wait for Germany and the other northern countries to exit and set up a alternative currency union.
What have they got to offer the EU people?
Will we the EU people benefit anything by the Dannes joining?
HUH ?!? But are Danes aware of their krona is pegged to Euro with ERM2 ? (max fluctuation: 2,25%) :°D