Ronald Zink, chief operating officer for E.U. affairs at Microsoft, said that harmonizing policies internationally might be just as important as doing it within the Union, but added: "I think the E.U. data protection laws can be a beacon for the U.S. and around the world.
For other countries, like Estonia, E.U. membership means harmonizing policies and regulations with the E.U. in ways that decreases their economic freedom.
The body will report, as a single unit, to the European Community and will, for the first time, harmonize policy across the whole island on education, agriculture, social service, economics, health and tourism.
Coordination between MOE and MLD is especially needed to harmonize policy priorities (for example, the emphasis on increasing access for children from marginalized and disadvantaged groups) with implementation at district and local levels.
It is the first time that European Union members, who are supposed to harmonize policies on all aspects of migration, including repatriation and asylum, have worked together in this way.
What we sought to do was to tell the government to harmonize policies on this across the federal agencies, to provide advice to the incoming Obama administration to restore integrity to science.
The framework also emphasizes the regional nature of many pastoralist ecosystems in Africa and, therefore, the need to support and harmonize policies across the Regional Economic Communities and Member States ([African Union 2010]).
The various repercussions (political, economic and systemic) from the national transition are explored within the EU context as it responds to the German transition, taking into account both existing frictions and potential synergies between predominantly national sustainability policies and the EU's push towards harmonized policies within a common market.
Toward that end, governments should agree on a core set of principles that reflect a global consensus on fostering international cooperation, followed by efforts to harmonize policies and practices, including those pertaining to the dissemination of dual-use research, to mitigate the potential for malevolent uses of dual-use research.
