Disunity would be irrational if EU members always saw their common interests as paramount.
There is continuing disunity in the international effort against money laundering and terrorist financing.
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When staffers sense disunity it erodes confidence and can even undermine their ability to work effectively, or certainly cooperatively.
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And director general Mark Thompson said there was "no disunity" over the issue.
In Harrogate in March he was sorry for the party's disunity over Europe.
The disunity lies in the broader debate over France's place in the world.
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Not until they learn the lesson of disunity - as did Labour in the 1990s - will they truly get their act together, it is argued.
He played that role well on Tuesday, gently chiding his party for offering blame without solutions and reminding them of the dangers of disillusion and disunity.
In recent memory John Major's premiership was tied in knots by euro-rebels and his party suffered a landslide defeat which owed much to the miasma of disunity which pervaded its final years.
The Reds' need to recover their form despite an injury list that includes Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres and with disunity in the squad after Ryan Babel announced be planned to leave if he did not play more games.
The odd thing is, this time it does not involve European Union politicians, but the journalists who cover the EU. The divide is pretty serious: the British and American press stands accused of trying to talk down all of east and central Europe, and talk up stories of splits and disunity among the 27 members.
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