This EU – the EU of multinationals, of harmonisation – makes people uneasy.
The chances of rallying opposition to federalism would diminish drastically, making it easier to further such goals as tax harmonisation, EU-wide social legislation and the preservation of farm subsidies.
This independence results in harmonisation challenges, not least lack of uniformity, making it difficult to evaluate care, diagnoses and treatment across the UK.
As other Europeans talk more about tax harmonisation and complain more about the independence of the new central bank, the British prime minister rediscovers the old dilemma of whether to keep his distance from a project going wrong or plunge in deeper in the hope of making it more congenial to Britain.At home, Mr Blair's decision on electoral reform is no less awkward.
Finally, for the topics (i) data access and harmonisation, (ii) sensor web enablement and (iii) metadata, we summarise our findings, provide recommendations on future developments and highlight the specific advantages resulting from a seamless view, discovery, access, and analysis of interoperable hydrological information and metadata for decision making.
The findings of this study suggest that the IHP + is making a positive contribution to improving aid effectiveness in the health sector (at least in the ten countries where the study was completed, and for those fifteen Development Partners that participated) in strengthening country ownership, harmonisation and alignment.
If the euro zone moves to greater fiscal and economic-policy harmonisation, it may make the entire club less congenial to liberals and less appealing even to those in Britain (including Mr Cameron) who want to stay in.The European project has long had at its heart a tension between an economic liberalism that favours openness to the world and an economic nationalism that prefers a fortress.
In the current debate on international accounting harmonisation, references are made to accounting model categories.
These trends in national decision-making, which show tendencies of convergence, could make an EU-driven 'top-down' harmonisation of support either dispensable or at least (depending on the agreement) less controversial.
