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Article: News: International: Danes poised to strike blow against euro `No' vote could influence British poll
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- June 4, 2000
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DANISH voters are set to deliver a stinging blow to the
credibility of the euro in a referendum that will set the tone for
similar votes in Britain and Sweden.
Opposition to joining the common currency is growing, according
to a startling opinion poll splashed across the front pages of
Denmark's newspapers yesterday.
The poll, which showed that 47 per cent of the population were
opposed to joining the currency compared to 43 per cent in favour,
was the first time that those against had outnumbered those in
favour in more than two years.
The No campaign was shown to be gaining support from both left
and right-wing parties ahead of the September vote. A defeat for pro-
euro campaigners would ...