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.
One idea that Mr Monti is keen on, however, is to harmonise the accounting methods used to calculate taxable profits.
Members are already working to harmonise accounting and trading rules, to link their systems and to combine marketing.
So Honda determined to harmonise its production systems the positioning of welding points in body shops, for instance in order to make such a switch faster.
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.
FSAP either a pan-European body or an inner club of states prepared to harmonise faster than the rest.
Steps are taken to harmonise these policies, in the name of better government and a level playing-field.
They agreed to harmonise their economic statistics and set common targets for such things as inflation and public debt.
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.
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 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.
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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Successive British governments have struggled at times to harmonise their concerns about human rights in Saudi Arabia with the fact that the Kingdom remains a key ally and a major customer for British weaponry, he adds.
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.
Europeans are dismayed by America's insistence on negotiating over defence-export regimes on a country-by-country and ultimately, company-by-company basis, instead of dealing with a block of allies, such as the six European nations that agreed last summer to harmonise controls on military technology.
Ironically, the government's hand may yet be forced by Cherie Booth, the prime minister's barrister-wife: she won a legal battle this week on behalf of a brewer, arguing that Britain's obligations under European law require it to harmonise taxes with its neighbours.
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.
Now, the association's leaders have identified 11 sectors, including electronics, tourism, health care and air travel, in which they hope to remove tariffs, harmonise standards, and expedite customs clearance.
That predictability means we can harmonise with the needs of the transmission network, to balance load with generation.
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