"I am confident that this new joint venture will accelerate the adoption of a common security standard, enabling a vibrant ecosystem of secure service providers to emerge.
He guided the peaceful reunification of his country, helped fashion the political framework for a united Europe and led the way to economic cooperation on the Continent and the adoption of a common currency.
Mr. Blair has prided himself on being a leader within Europe although his country is not participating in Europe's most ambitious initiative -- the adoption of a common currency.
The Ramones' defiant, often funny bubblegum punk and the group's uniform image of leather-clad high school hoods and its adoption of a common last name, Ramone, camouflaged its members' serious personality disorders and conflicts.
The member states of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda hope their common market will promote freer movement of labour, money and services, and maybe eventually the adoption of a common currency.
Adoption of a common currency or monetary policy by all members of the project also requires a strong convergence in macroeconomic policy, which imposes external restraints on the domestic fiscal and expenditure policies that a government may pursue.
The solution and next stage in the integration progression is some form of monetary union, be it through an agreed fixing of relative exchange rates or the more commonly discussed adoption of a common currency.
Implicit in the adoption of a common external tariff is a further harmonization of national rules and regulations, particularly those relating to the control and flow of external trade into the regional economic space.
Underlying Mr. Blair's appeal is his eagerness to be a leader within Europe while Britain is not taking part in Europe's adoption of a common currency and maintains a close association with the United States, which raises a mixture of envy and resentment on the Continent.
To take the most striking example, in a large part of Germany, until the adoption of a common code for the whole empire in 1900, the Roman law was in force as "subsidiary law"; that is, it was applied unless excluded by contrary local provisions.
