That government would aim to harmonise European taxes and mutualise sovereign debt, he said.
The idea is to harmonise secrecy, intellectual-property and export-control regimes, all of which sounds sensible.
Such a strategy might help Britain to avoid being forced to harmonise corporate or savings taxes.
The world's accounting profession is in the midst of a massive effort to harmonise accounting standards.
Steps are taken to harmonise these policies, in the name of better government and a level playing-field.
That predictability means we can harmonise with the needs of the transmission network, to balance load with generation.
Members are already working to harmonise accounting and trading rules, to link their systems and to combine marketing.
They agreed to harmonise their economic statistics and set common targets for such things as inflation and public debt.
The six new bodies established will harmonise north-south policy on a range of issues on both sides of the border.
One idea that Mr Monti is keen on, however, is to harmonise the accounting methods used to calculate taxable profits.
Major firms lobby governments around the world for deregulation or for global negotiations to harmonise rules or, better yet, for self-regulation.
We're trying to harmonise it by one location that brings people together.
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"It is only us taking the commercial initiative that is obliging regulators to act to harmonise, " Mr Cruickshank told the Today programme.
The European Parliament approved on first reading a law that would harmonise national patent legislation on genetic engineering , and would allow continent-wide patents for genetic inventions.
Its chairman, Ed Jenkins, has been running a rearguard action against plans to harmonise international accounting standards, because he believes that standards overseas are not tough enough.
Charlotte Powell, a London-based barrister and chair of the Extradition Lawyers' Association, notes that the desire to harmonise procedural rules has outstripped the harmonisation of substantive elements.
The cross-border bodies, devised as part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement peace accord and mandated by referendum, will harmonise north-south policy on a number of areas.
The 700MHz frequency band, currently used by digital terrestrial television, will be opened up to mobile services by 2018 as part of a global plan to harmonise frequencies for mobile users.
Mr Sarkozy said the five ministers had also agreed to harmonise terms to ensure that immigrants who are granted permission to stay are allowed to bring their families to join them.
Even in a negative scenario, such voices would struggle to win all their arguments: enlargement has given the newcomers a big say, and they are not about to harmonise away all their advantages.
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The European Union will pass a directive on conglomerates, perhaps by the end of this year, which aims to harmonise the regulatory treatment of most market and credit risks, whether in an insurance company or in a bank.
Though the European Commission launched an effort on March 24th to harmonise divorce law among ten like-minded countries (and it hopes other EU states will come on board), many international initiatives have become bogged down amid cultural and legal differences.
In an attempt to make it harder for organised criminals to arm themselves, and in a nod to global counter-terrorist efforts, a group of ten eastern and central African countries, including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda, which owe their liberation movements partly to the Kalashnikov, has agreed to harmonise gun laws.
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