(COPENHAGEN) - Most Danes are in favour of replacing the Danish krone with the euro, a poll published in the Boersen financial daily on Friday showed.

Fifty-five percent of Danes would vote to eliminate the European Union opt-out that has allowed Denmark to remain outside the eurozone, the Greens Analysis Institute Poll showed.

Thirty-eight percent of the 1,159 people questioned between March 31 and April 2 meanwhile said they would vote to hold onto the krone.

After rejecting the EU Maastricht Treaty in 1992, Danes adopted the document in a second referendum in May 1993 after obtaining four exemptions: on the euro, the EU joint defence policy, judicial cooperation and European citizenship.

Danes last voted on whether to adopt the euro in 2000, when the measure was rejected by 53.2 percent of voters.

Polls conducted since then have given a conflicting picture of attitudes in the Scandinavian country towards the common currency.

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said late last year that Danes would be called to a referendum on the four opt-outs by 2012.

Although Rasmussen has kept mum at home about when a referendum might be held he has hinted in recent interviews with German media that a vote on the euro could be held in the second half of this year.

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