By contrast, asylum, immigration and organised crime might better be tackled with common policies.Mr Jospin's talk of expanding EU capacities in these latter areas sounds promising.
Following a 1991 meeting of the European Communities that was held in Maastricht, an accord (known as the Maastricht Treaty) was signed calling for the establishment of a European Union, with common policies on economics, foreign affairs, security, and immigration.
Months of European efforts to come up with common policies on mass immigration unravelled on Sunday when Germany led a "coalition of the willing" of nine EU countries taking in most refugees from the Middle East, splitting the union formally on the issues of mandatory refugee-sharing and funding.
Safeguards are "a second-best solution" compared with common policies on trade-distorting practices, such as export incentives, says Beatriz Nofal, a consultant in Buenos Aires.Mr Chávez, like Mr Kirchner, has never been a man to stick to rules when they constrain him.
So far, they have never shown sufficient forward-looking vision to go beyond national interests in favour of a greater convergence, such as occurs with common policies.
Effectively, this means border management, hand-in-hand with common policies on asylum and immigration.
Facilities in all three groupings involved a similar mix of community health services (nursing, allied health, child and family, diabetes, aged care, and other service types e.g. rehabilitation, chronic and complex care, women's services, migrant services, renal/dialysis, and regional health service programs), with common policies, standards, governance and performance monitoring processes.
This process culminated on Dec. 8, 1991, in the signing of an agreement between the three Slav republics of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus for the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), with an agreed common policy for foreign affairs and defense.
Palestinian analysts said that in any case, real reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas seems a long way off and that Hamas is not likely to commit to a date for elections or to a common policy with Mr. Abbas.
With farmland afforestation becoming common policy in many European Union countries, we studied how early forest succession (from meadow to young stand) influences small mammal species composition, diversity, abundance and biomass.
