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Denmark, a country which is critical both of the euro and of Europe, is now taking the helm. At the EU Summit in December, Denmark was accused by the French President of being an outsider and a new, small Member State. It is clear that this Council Presidency, in the same way as its recent predecessors, will be overshadowed by the debt crisis. In this situation, healthy criticism of Europe may well be just the right approach to enable mediation between the euro countries and the non-euro countries and to allow the necessary steps, including the introduction of a core European monetary agreement, to be taken. We must hope that the scepticism shown by Denmark with regard to the removal of border controls when the Schengen Agreement was extended will result in the Commission not making the imposition of border controls more difficult without good reason and, therefore, not further restricting national sovereignty. When it comes to making the decision on Serbian accession status at the EU Summit in March, hopefully Denmark will abolish the double standards that have been in place until now and introduce fair treatment for Serbia. Ultimately, it is totally inappropriate for the EU to demand that Serbia recognises Kosovo when not all of its own Member States have done so. In addition, it is high time that the negotiations with Turkey on EU accession are turned into negotiations on a privileged partnership."@en1
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