"reinforce cooperation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to strengthen or support the act of working together with others. Example: In order to achieve our goals, it is important for us to reinforce cooperation among team members. This can be accomplished through regular team meetings and open communication channels.
Meanwhile, French ministers announced that the intelligence chiefs of the five large states, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, would meet in Madrid on Monday to reinforce cooperation in the bombing investigation there.
In that case, they'll eventually drive themselves to extinction unless they develop stable, and effective, moral norms that work to reinforce cooperation.
Just as encouraging for the future of the planet, the EU and China are also discussing how to reinforce cooperation on emissions trading—both reform of the EU system and the launch of the Chinese system later this year.
It is conceivable that placing a lower limit on the number of cells required to initiate infection could make clonal infection less likely and so make the presence of cheats in the population inevitable; however, it is equally conceivable that this could select for transmission via groups of related cells and so reinforce cooperation.
The historic new accord – signed at a joint conference in Abuja by regional bodies, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) – aims to reinforce cooperation in areas like the repatriation of victims and the extradition of traffickers.
After long negotiations, Council and Parliament agreed that the most efficient and cost-effective way to avoid duplication of work between Eurostat, the Commission and the European Railway Agency (ERA) was to reinforce cooperation between these institutions and ensure that statistical data related to EU policies are easily accessible to EU citizens and stakeholders.
For fiscal systems convergence to the growing concern on social investment, France and Germany initiatives or reinforced cooperation are missing the point.
The future European market design will be completed by 2014; the main principle is reinforced cooperation within supranational bodies, and harmonized rules would enable liquid bilateral trading.
"The dog that never barked in the European Union is this notion of reinforced cooperation, where some countries go ahead in different areas -- internal security, defense and now the euro," said Katinka Barysch, chief economist at the Center for European Reform, in London.
The question of a "two-speed Europe" and reinforced cooperation is also bound to become even more important in the context of future EU enlargements, as EU decision-makers and officials are increasingly making clear that few, if any, of the applicant countries will be able to join the Euro at the same time they join the EU.
The National Stock Market Commission (CNMV), for instance, considered that applying the Tobin tax in Spain would generate a competitive disadvantage since many EU countries have not yet applied a similar tax, including most of the ones who signed the reinforced cooperation agreement.
