Compared with the French and British, the Germans remain fervent advocates of ever closer integration.
Tackling the challenging biological problems of the future will require ever closer integration of biology and physics in advancing new concepts and new experimental techniques.
These include the ever increasing importance of the customer preferences in shippers' logistical arrangements, the closer integration between logistical decisions and production and marketing decisions, and the rationalisation of logistical and transport operations.
Mr Cameron has argued that treaty changes are needed to bring about the reforms he wants - creating a two-tier Europe, with closer integration between eurozone countries and Britain exempted from the drive for "ever closer union" between member states.
The government's plans for integration pioneers and a £3.7bn integration transformation fund to ensure that closer integration between health and social care reflects a fresh approach to joining up services around the needs of individuals.
For decades, closer integration between health and social care has been the holy grail of health policy.
Scotland is seeking to loosen its ties with the rest of the UK at the very time the eurozone is seeking closer integration between its 18 members.
Since the disastrous global trade talks in Seattle not long ago, many of those who have long favored closer integration between nations are on the defensive.
Nearly four fifths reckon Arabs make up a single nation; three quarters favour closer integration between countries.
His uncompromising commitment to excellence, his inherent dissatisfaction with the status quo, and his insistence on a closer integration between laboratory and clinical research, gave rise to principles that still guide the Institute today.
