Terror, migration, farming and fishing (another source of tension) all demand joint European as much as bilateral action.Mr Zapatero would be the first to admit this, but will he also come to see that Mr Aznar's attitude, flinty as it certainly was, also had some merit to it?
This will demand joint responses from member states and between-country collaborations so that expertise and experience can be shared, and benefits can be rapidly disseminated on a Europe-wide basis.
Microsoft will face competition from Hulu, a video-on-demand joint venture backed by News Corporation, NBC Universal and Disney.
Arqiva launched SeeSaw using assets acquired from what was Project Kangaroo, the video-on-demand joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 scotched by competition regulators.
SeeSaw launched in February last year after Arqiva acquired the assets of what was Project Kangaroo, the video-on-demand joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 scotched by competition regulators, for £8m.
It controversially launched advertising on BBC.com but had its plans for a commercial video-on-demand joint venture with ITV and Channel 4, Project Kangaroo, blocked by the Competition Commission.
Or maybe this is a fight more like that between BSkyB and the video-on-demand joint venture Project Canvas – with the fear being that News International will lose control over the look and feel of its content, and that rivals will be given a publicly funded leg-up into a market it dominates.
Part of Criterion's plan to bring the struggling online TV venture to profitability – Arqiva acquired the assets of what was Project Kangaroo, the video-on-demand joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 scotched by competition regulators – was to renegotiate nearly 20 programme content deals.
There is now provisional BBC Trust approval for Project Canvas, the TV-on-demand joint venture that includes ITV, the BBC and BT, but Norman may be left with the task of working out what to do with ITV's digital albatross Friends Reunited, if the Competition Commission blocks its proposed £25m sale.
The Americans are also demanding joint patrols with Iraqi security officials -- many of whom refused to fight the insurgents -- and a general reconstruction of Iraqi security organizations.
And now that the new French president is talking about the need for Eurobonds, even the IMF and the OECD have joined the chorus of those demanding joint euro-zone debt issuance.
