More Eurosceptic Denmark if right wins

The Liberals and Conservatives, in a strong position to win the 18 June elections, are prepared to stand behind Britain’s David Cameron

17 juin 2015 à 15h15

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Europe was absent from the Danish election campaign for a long time. At most it appeared implicitly, in calls by candidates, including members of the Social Democrat party of Prime Ministre Helle Thorning-Schmidt, for limits on the admission of refugees. Then, on 11 June, all the right-of-centre opposition parties dropped what TV2 called a "European bomb". In the – possible - event of a victory by this camp, there will be a change of course for Denmark in Brussels, they…

Different derogations

The next Danish government will have the task of organising a referendum on the abolition of part of the derogation obtained by Copenhagen more than 20 years ago in the area of police cooperation. Four of the principal parties, from left and right alike, came together to agree that such a consultation would take place no later than the first quarter of 2016. It will only concern the country's participation in Europol, however, not European cooperation on asylum and immigration, areas where Copenhagen wishes to keep control while following the Dublin III Convention. The next parliament is also supposed to take a decision on the country's participation in banking union, theoretically without calling a referendum. For the opt-out from the euro, "there is no question of touching it, at least until after the legislative election in 2019," says Catharina Soerensen, director of research at the Danish think tank, Europa.

Different derogations

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