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Denmark holds referendum on EU defense amid Ukraine war

Political leader The Red-Green Alliance Mai Villadsen hands out flyers during their NO campaign at Noerreport Station in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Danish voters on Wednesday will decide whether to abandon their country's 30-year-old opt-out from the bloc's common defense policy. Writing on posters reads in Danish "The defense industry is one of the most climate damaging in the world, no defense reservation." (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish People's Party chairman Morten Messerschmidt, right, and former brigadier general British Geoffrey Van Orden, of the NO campaign, give a press conference at The Library Bar in Copenhagen, Monday 30 May 2022. Historically skeptical about European Union efforts to deepen security cooperation, Danish voters on Wednesday, June 1, 2022 will decide whether to abandon their country’s opt-out from the bloc’s common defense policy. (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

FILE - Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, right, speaks to people while on an election campaign, in Holbaek, Denmark, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Historically skeptical about European Union efforts to deepen security cooperation, Danish voters on Wednesday June 1, 2022, will decide whether to abandon their country's 30-year-old opt-out from the bloc's common defense policy. (Claus Bech/ Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Denmark holds referendum on EU defense amid Ukraine war