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Denmark gives ‘clear signal’ with EU defense policy vote

People vote at Rude Skov School in Birkeroed, Denmark, Wednesday June 1, 2022. Polling stations opened in Denmark for voters to decide whether to abandon their country’s 30-year-old opt-out from the European Union's common defense policy. (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) The five leaders of the political parties belonging to the 'National Compromize' campaign for a YES, in the center of Copenhagen, Wednesday June 1, 2022. From left, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, leader of The Liberal Party, Sofie Carsten Nielsen, leader of The Social Liberal Party, Soeren Pape, leader of the Conservative Party, Pia Olsen Dyhr, leader of the The Socialist Peoples Party and Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party 2022. Polling stations opened in Denmark for voters to decide whether to abandon their country’s 30-year-old opt-out from the European Union's common defense policy. (Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister and Chairman of The Social Democratic Party speaks to members of her party in the parliament in Copenhagen, Wednesday June 1, 2022. Denmark appears headed toward joining the European Union’s common defense policy that it long eschewed, partial results from a referendum indicate, in a new example of a European country seeking closer defense links with allies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Philip Davali/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister and Chairman of The Social Democratic Party speaks to members of her party in the parliament in Copenhagen, Wednesday June 1, 2022. Denmark appears headed toward joining the European Union’s common defense policy that it long eschewed, partial results from a referendum indicate, in a new example of a European country seeking closer defense links with allies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Philip Davali/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
Denmark gives ‘clear signal’ with EU defense policy vote