UK Declares Independence From The EU!

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EU Support Surges in Denmark as Brexit Scare Spreads in Nordics, according to Bloomberg.

Denmark became the latest Nordic country to experience rising public support for the European Union, defying predictions that a U.K. vote to exit would inspire other euro-skeptic corners of the bloc.

According to a Voxmeter poll published by Ritzau on Monday, 69 percent of Danes now back EU membership, up from 59.8 percent in a poll held prior to the U.K. vote. The poll also found that the proportion of respondents wanting a U.K.-style referendum had fallen to 32 percent from 40.7 percent.

I'm not surprised by those developments in Denmark as the political outfall in the UK was heavy and the negative economic consequences were strongly highlighted in Italian media. A surprisingly large space was giving to hate crimes against foreigners, in some cases through Italian citiziens living in the UK. If Danish reporting was similar it will have pushed EU support.

Who knows how this will influence the negotiations. On one hand their might less need for the EU to be harsh to avoid the dominio effect, on the other it might be deduced that a hard and principled EU approach is signaling properly and is thus working.