The harmonisation and codification of money-laundering laws to a restrictive level.
The only changes we will see will be for greater harmonisation and closer union.
Even so, harmonisation and recognition agreements can both create and divert trade.
SIR —The harmonisation and alignment commitments you admonish donors for failing to implement are no panacea.
Hence the assumptions of many that a single market and single currency would lead to tax harmonisation and a federal fiscal policy and then a quasi-federal state.
If, for instance, an inner group moved towards tax or social-security harmonisation and wished to discriminate against those that held aloof, that should not be allowed.
The latest furore, however, is over Mr Sheppard's arrangement of our own anthem, God Save The Queen, which has a new harmonisation and is missing four notes!
O'Cuiv also argued against tax harmonisation and proposed the ECB be reformed in order to act as a normal central bank with the ability to buy bonds from the sovereign directly.
And it is global Europe not trade bloc Europe that is the way forward and a flexible, reforming Europe that thinks globally must now reject the old, fatally flawed assumptions of tax harmonisation and federalism.
Meetings in Brussels would be longer and wordier, relations with Russia would acquire a new salience, Britain would have a few more allies in its fight against tax harmonisation, and that would be pretty well all.
When governments meet at the WTO's December conference in Bali they should make a special effort in what is called "trade facilitation"—efforts to boost efficiency at customs through regulatory harmonisation and better infrastructure.
