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| REFERENDUMS
HELD ON EUROPEAN MATTERS: 5
1972:
EU - Accession (Yes 63 % - No 37 % - Turnout 90 %)
1982: Greeland: Remain in the EC? (No 54 % - Yes 46 % - Turnout
75 %)
1986: Single European Act (Yes 56 % - No 44 % - Turnout 75 %)
1992: Treaty of Maastricht (No 52 % - Yes 48 % - Turnout 83 %)
1993: Treaty of Maastricht - including Danish Opt-Outs e.g. Euro
(Yes 57 % - No 43 % - Turnout 86 %) |
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CONSTITUTIONAL
CONDITIONS - Constitution
of Denmark
Binding
referendum mandatory if constitutional amendment effected. Otherwise
only evitable if not approved by a majority of 5/6 from members
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PROCEDURE
On
26 March 1998, the government introduced the ratification bill,
approved the Folketing (92 votes for, 22 against). For the 5/6 majority,
150 members out of the total number of 179 would have been required.
On 28 May 1998, Danish people approved the Amsterdam Treaty in a
referendum by 55.1 per cent of the vote and the ratification law
went into effect on 6 June 1998 (Law No. 322). This was the fifth
referendum on European matters in Denmark since 1972.
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RELEVANT
DOCUMENTS AND MATERIAL
Petersen, N.
(1998), The
Danish Referendum on the Treaty of Amsterdam Europas?, Center
for European Integration Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Bonn. (PDF)
Hug, S.; Koenig,
T. (2000), Divided
Government and the Ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty.
Thurner, P.;
Stoiber, M. (2001), Comparing
Ratification Processes within EU Member States: The Identification
of Real Veto Players, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
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