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Survey Reveals that a Britain Exit From the EU Would Sway a Denmark Exit

<p>In a recent poll by the firm Epinion for the consulting business&comma; Analyseenheden 4V&comma; 27&percnt; of Danish participants acknowledged that they would leave the European Union in the event of a Britain exit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although&comma; 30&percnt; voted that they would remain&period; With these results almost tied&comma; they land in a margin of error&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This shows that it is more than likely that the country would withdraw from the EU in light of a referendum&period; However&comma; there doesn&rsquo&semi;t seem to be a vote regarding this issue in Denmark&rsquo&semi;s near future&period; But&comma; it&rsquo&semi;s not uncommon for the country to hold a referendum considering the country held one last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;No referendum has been called&comma; but if it were&comma; the result would likely be a Daxit&comma; or Danexit&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Erik Hogh-Sorensen&comma; a partner at Analyseenheden 4V&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But then again&comma; this also depends heavily on a move by Britain&period; This week the U&period;K&period; Treasury chief George Osborne said the exit would have a devastating effect on the U&period;K&period; economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Britain would be permanently poorer if it left the European Union&period; Under any alternative&comma; we&rsquo&semi;d trade less&comma; do less business and receive less investment&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Osborne&period; &ldquo&semi;British families will pay a heavy economic price if we leave the EU&period;&rdquo&semi; ​So&comma; it&rsquo&semi;s safe to say that a Britain exit is not likely to happen anytime soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The consultancy also analyzed the possible impact on the Denmark&period; If the country was to follow Britain&rsquo&semi;s exit&comma; it actually would work in the country&rsquo&semi;s favor&period; Denmark and Britain have a beneficial economical relationship&comma; specifically Denmark relies on Britain&rsquo&semi;s support of the free-trade agenda&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Britain and Denmark entered together in 1973 and remain political and economic allies&period; Neither country is a member of the euro&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Hogh-Sorensen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At this point it is all speculation&comma; but it shows that Dutch voters are frustrated with the EU&period; Last week&comma; the country voted against a EU trade deal with Ukraine&comma; with 64&percnt; opposed&period;&ldquo&semi;The EU is ruled by an undemocratic bureaucracy and ever more Europeans have enough of it&period; And no one can prevent the Dutch people using this referendum to voice their dislike of the EU&comma; and of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte&comma; the present chairman of the European Council&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Geert Wilders of the Party of Freedom&comma; who opposed last week&rsquo&semi;s EU deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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