'The emphasis on public health protection in the directive can be explained by the fact that it constituted the main objective of the national measures being harmonised, but, in the context of harmonisation, it became a secondary objective' (para 56).
In certain cases, precisely because we are a Union, we need a degree of harmonisation or more legislation, sometimes in order to harmonise or simplify the existing legislation.
We have to create a mechanism of harmonisation, of culture and roles.
This EU – the EU of multinationals, of harmonisation – makes people uneasy.
Europe, however, came up with a more timid offer and flatly rejected the principle of harmonisation.
France's sacred cow of "harmonisation," the demand that the countries' social burdens and taxation systems be totally aligned, has become a very thin and mangy beast.
"While Wada fully respects the IOC's autonomy to make decisions under the Olympic Charter, the approach taken and the criteria set forward will inevitably lead to a lack of harmonisation, potential challenges and lesser protection for clean athletes," he said.
Negotiators said today that levels of protection were their primary concern and that because the two regions were so different there could be "no question of harmonisation" across the chemical sector.
Certain politicians in Europe aren't happy with the fact that Google and some of the American players dominate the European market so much, and part of the reason they do is there is an absence of harmonisation".
He insists that he is not engaged in "tax harmonisation for the sake of harmonisation", but rather in "tax co-ordination"—which he defines as helping member states to do what they want to do anyway.
But, thanks to existing ties, no amount of harmonisation will stop migrants heading for the places they already go to.Which is why Germany is so exercised about the policing of the EU's borders.
