(COPENHAGEN) - A majority of Danes are in favour of abolishing opt-outs that enable Denmark to remain outside the eurozone and the European Union's joint defence and judiciary cooperation, a poll published Friday suggested.

Some 54 percent of Danes said they would vote to adopt the euro currency, 42 percent were against the idea and four percent remained undecided, according to the Green Analysis poll that surveyed 1,009 people between May 5-7 and was published in the financial daily Boersen.

Danes rejected the euro in a September 2000 referendum, when 53.2 percent said no.

Denmark was granted four EU exemptions in December 1992 (on the euro, the EU joint defence policy, judicial cooperation and European citizenship) following its initial rejection, by referendum, of the EU's Maastricht Treaty in June that year.

The opt-outs enabled the government to organise another plebiscite in May 1993, after which the treaty was adopted.

In Friday's poll, 63 percent said they wanted Denmark to adopt the EU's joint defence policy, while 22 percent were opposed and 15 percent were undecided.

Danes were however more divided on judicial and immigration cooperation within the 27-member bloc, with 38 percent in favour, 30 percent against and 31 percent undecided.

The poll indicated Danes were largely against the idea of European citizenship: 49 percent rejected it, 30 percent were in favour and 21 percent were undecided.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has previously said he would put the opt-outs to a referendum, but has yet to set a date and has not specified whether all the exemptions would be included in a single referendum or put separately to the population.

Semi-public TV2 reported Friday the government was planning to organise one referendum on joint defence and judiciary policy in September and another on the euro at a later date.

If a single referendum were held on all four opt-outs, 43 percent would vote in favour of their abolition while 39 percent would vote against and 18 percent were undecided, the poll showed.

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