Both Oskar Lafontaine of Germany and Dominique Strauss-Kahn of France spoke of plans for harmonising taxes within the European Union.
He does not like the redistribution of tax revenues among the cantons, or other proposals for harmonising various policies of cantonal governments.
"The basic condition for harmonising all the city's architectural space," he writes, "is the focus on the leader's statue and ensuring that the statue plays the leading role in the architectural formation of the city".
On justice and home affairs, plans have been put forward for harmonising immigration and asylum procedures, and for incorporating the elimination of border controls (under the Schengen agreement) into the EU treaty.
Much harder to achieve will be the removal of non-tariff barriers, which would call for harmonising thousands of industry standards and customs regulations, and setting up independent bodies to govern regional trade and mediate in disputes.Few believe that the ASEAN Economic Community will come about as its architects hope.
The existing literature does not adequately address environmental management systems as tools for harmonising the environmental, social and economic realms of education for sustainable development at primary schools.
The European efforts for harmonising the legislation and standardisation in the field of international, national and regional railway transport are the starting conditions for more competition and success of railway transport in the future.
In the field of laboratory medicine, the availability of a specific, universal standard (ISO/DIS 15189) for quality management in medical laboratories will represent a great opportunity for harmonising medical laboratories at an international level.
Moreover, it strengthens the need for harmonising detection methods for KRAS mutations and to develop highly sensitive techniques for plasma testing.
In response to the problem of inconsistent migration data, we have developed a methodology for harmonising the data available to us from countries in Europe.
