On the whole the experience was positive and the levels of communication, integration and cross-pollination of ideas that resulted certainly had significant positive effects.

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Service providers felt their work was being hampered by a punitive Westminster policy framework, while the Scottish Executive was perceived to be promoting integration work in a more positive way.

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India's medium-term growth outlook is positive due to a young population and corresponding low dependency ratio, healthy savings and investment rates, and increasing integration into the global economy.

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His strongest positive proposal is European rather than British: a plea to reverse the Monnet tradition of putting economic before political integration, which he argues has become unsustainable against the horizon of the single currency.

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