A great chance for a small country

Denmark must prevent the EU from falling apart during its six-month EU presidency, the left-liberal daily Politiken comments: "We are living in a new Europe and Denmark has a great opportunity to preserve this Europe in the coming six months. ... There is an increased risk of it splitting up - a risk that has hardly been minimised by the fact that the UK has rejected the pact for greater budgetary discipline. The EU is currently divided into three camps: 17 euro countries, nine countries (including Denmark) that want to join the pact and the UK, which has adopted a collision course. Preventing the EU from falling apart is a decisive criterion for the success of the EU presidency. It could be helpful for Denmark's role as mediator that we don't belong to the monetary union. ... The European Union stands for more than an economy and currency: it represents peace, freedom and European values."

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