In Europe national politicians, answerable to their own electorates, are struggling to confront continent-wide problems.
Spreading bank assets continent-wide is thus desirable not only for would-be banking champions but also for the euro.
Previous efforts have talked of the failures of individual states but these are the first attempts to identify the phenomenon continent-wide.
The city is also home to a vibrant fashion community, where dozens of independent designers and clothing brands influence country and continent-wide fashion trends.
People will naturally now wonder whether this problem is continent-wide but I don't think it is, at least not on the same scale.
It will give priority to the Roma during its presidency, says Mr Navracsics, as an example of an issue that needs a continent-wide strategy.
The Council of Europe, a continent-wide talking-shop that is the guardian of many international legal conventions, has a treaty on cybercrime dating from 2001.
Africans say correctly that theirs is a continent of wide-open spaces.
It is hard to see how he can achieve continent-wide reforms.
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.
ISET, an alternative-energy institute at the University of Kassel, in Germany, continent-wide power distribution systems in a place like Europe would deal with both of these points.
Saudi Arabia's first attempt at continent-wide Islamist coordination, interestingly enough, took place in 1976 in Mauritania's capital of Nouakachott under the auspices of the Riyadh-controlled Muslim World League.
Yet even as the single currency leads inexorably to a genuine single capital market in Europe, the logic of having continent-wide banks to match is coming to seem irresistible.
If the EU can replace all such deals, and Europe achieves a single continent-wide air-travel market, such considerations would no longer be an obstacle to mergers of this kind.
Meanwhile, the prime minister of Romania, where two abattoirs are alleged to have sold horsemeat purported to be beef to European food companies, has said that the scandal is a continent-wide problem.
Mr Cameron is thought to be in support of a plan for the European Central Bank effectively to print money in a Continent-wide quantitative easing programme which could be used to rescue Italy and possibly Spain.
For several years, countries like Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary have been developing alternative trade routes, and even the European Commission's plan for a continent-wide transport network is based on the assumption that Serbia may remain a no-go area.
It looks like it will take more than the American government's "Paulson Plan" to restore confidence to Europe's financial sector: governments in Europe raced to prepare a fresh round of bank rescue packages on Monday, but banking stocks fell more than 7.0% and credit markets remained frozen as the likelihood of a continent-wide initiative began to fade.
And his hopes for Railex are as wide as the continent: He wants to expand the service with warehouse hubs in California, Florida and Tennessee.
While these systems offer a number of advantages for time-critical two-way communications, they are expensive and limited if you need wide-area coverage, especially across a country or continent.
British bank officials aren't too concerned about an integrated and policed European-wide banking sector --especially not as concerned as their colleagues on the continent.
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