well,eventually one more nation wakes up and face the reality...joining the euro doesn't make you less danish,or swedish or irish or greek...it's just making business,and if business is better with the euro then why not..??other things make you proud of where you are coming from,like history and culture...and there's nothing bad in being danish AND european.....
welldone to the danes....and best of luck....

christos, Dublin,

With Ireland and now Denmark planning to hold a referendum on the European Reform Treaty ( EU Constitution) and allowing the voters to decide on their respective futures is to be welcomed.

However, as the EU never take "NO" for an answer, undue pressure will no doubt be put on the electorate, with an EU funded (EU tax payers) "YES " campaign, after all they don`t believe in democracy.

It is now time that all of us who believe in democracy and the future of our country now applied pressure on Gordon Brown and his government to demand a referendum for the British people.

This government was elected in 2005 with a promise of a referendum on any future EU Constition ( Which the "Treaty" is) as set out in their manifesto.

If Gordon Brown renages on this, it proves that he treats the electorate with with utter contempt.to him we are nothing more than the idiots who pay for his ilk.

Phil Giffiths, Wallasey, Wirralr

The Danes seem to be finally waking up to geopolitical and economic realities. Individual European states cannot go on thinking that survival is possible on one's own. This continent is much stronger politically and economically when its nations are united. Britain's oppostion to the inevitable process of history will eventually prove to have been an historical anachronism.

Johanna, Paris, France

theres only one way for the danes to go if your proud of being danish then keep the krone dont let the EU run your country drop out of the eu and become like norway.lets hope the EU falls soon its bad for the danes bad for britain and any british reading his dont vote labour.

christopher wood, bolton, uk

R Bingham, May I point out that Mark Francois is campaigning for a referendum. I am not a Conservative I just do not wish for his views to be misinterpreted.

Angelina Marriott, Essex, UK

Gorden Brown is the biggest excuse for a Prime Minister this country as had.All three parties promised this country in their manifesto a vote on this EU Constitutional Treaty. But these politicians all think they now best, but they forget they are servants of the public. The British voter will not forget when it comes to the next election.

john white, Evesham, Worcs England

I wonder if Mr. Rasmussen will be open and give the Danish people a true insight into the EU. At the last referendum the Danes saw through the propaganda, half truths and myths. It is strange that once there is decision in favour of the EU we have never been given the opportunity to reject the concept and choose an independent, self governing state free of corruption that appears to be rife in Brussels. This last is so well illustrated yet again as for the thirteenth year the accounts of the Commission have not be signed by the auditors. We have watched the demise of superstates in recent years, so I can not wait for that welcome implosion when we can yet again cease to regard our neighbours with great suspicion.

David Bushby, Comrie, U.K

This is a shoddy trick by Rasmussen.They will not be consulted on the new tEU treaty any more than the +British will be. Why? Because the european elite know best. The Danes willbe asked repeatedly if they want the euro until they say yes. When and if they do vote yes they will never be consulted again! This is democracy EU style and self evidently "a good thing". Soviet union mark II Hear we all come!!!

adams, greenwich, london

Mark Francois, the shadow Europe minister, said: “ . . . . If the Danish Goverment wish to discard some of their opt-outs that is a matter for Danish people and Parliament to decide.”

But these arrogant politicians do not believe that British people should be treated with the same respect.

As I see it British full membership of the EU is good for Britain and good for Europe but the revised constitution ( sorry, European Tidying-up Treaty) should be subjected to close, independent scrutiny followed by a referendum before it is signed or ratified. I don't trust parliament to do it!

The anger and resentment caused by this excuse for a goverment (and equal excuse for an opposition party) will almost certainly result in a NO.

Heads you lose - tails they win, Gordon.

Roll on the general election - soon, please, very soon.

R Bingham, Lauzun, France

When we in Britain joined the Common Market in 1973, then had our one and only say in the referendum on membership in 1975, we were constantly told that we would not lose sovereignty and that there was not going to be a single European currency. We in Britain are long overdue another say on this matter, we should be given the chance to decide if we want to be fully subsumed into a federal Europe or remain as an independent sovereign nation with an EFTA agreement with the EU. I would vote for independence.

Derek Bennett, Walsall, England

If so.....Welcome in our fully integrated EU :) It's nonsense to be a EU member and keep that many opt-outs....It's fine to keep some freedom in internal affairs ( just like any US state) but refusing EU integration such as the euro, a EU citizenship, foreign affairs....is quite "weird" for a EU state sharing its future with the other EU.......Welcome to the Euro-Danes.....:)))

pascal-pierre, Dinan ( france), EU

Ask the same question often enough, and eventually you'll get the answer you want.

After that, stop asking !

Peter G. Millington-Wallace, Havndal, Denmark