The deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression has prompted countries that had snubbed the euro to take a fresh look at the virtues of the common European currency.

More surprising, Denmark - a nearly picture-perfect model of economic management - now looks more likely to embrace the euro, after rejecting it twice in the past.

And Sweden, which also belongs to the EU but rejected the euro in 2003, has seen a shift in public sentiment in favor of the euro