Single services will not change that - but they offer us a unique opportunity to do more.
If there is a single social services department for Gwent - what happens if there is a serious failing in, say, Monmouthshire?
Every single financial services firm has a huge portfolio of securities that must be closely observed and analyzed in as close to real time as possible.
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"Many councils in Wales cover very large geographical areas because they are so rural and imagine having a single department running services for two councils over that area, " he told BBC Radio Wales.
EUROPE'S much-promised single market in financial services is taking a long time to create.
However, the UK will remain outside, and will demand a strengthened 27-member single market in financial services.
There has been less progress in creating a single market in financial services, which remains some way off.
Eastbourne and Hastings borough councils and Rother and Wealden district councils have teamed up to sign a single contract with Kier Services.
Mr Van Rompuy thinks the banking union ought to cover the whole of the EU to avoid fragmenting Europe's single market in financial services.
Without state coddling the banks have been under pressure, first from Europe's single market in financial services and now from the birth of the euro.
All these things flow from Mr Monti's responsibility for the single market and financial services, a portfolio that also includes matters of public procurement, taxation and intellectual property.
How to distinguish between preserving financial stability (a matter for the 17 euro-area states) and preserving the single market in financial services (a question for all 27 EU members)?
At a retail banking conference a few years ago, speakers were extolling the value of one-stop shopping, although when questioned it turned out none of them relied on a single source of financial services.
He believes there will be opportunities for the UK to recalibrate its relationship with the EU, further protecting British interests in areas such as the single market and financial services but also potentially repatriating certain powers.
This week, Google announced that, effective March 1st, it would be creating a single view of users across the majority of its products and services, and creating a single, simplified, global privacy policy to cover the new approach.
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Hubs bring together related content from the Web, applications and services into a single view to simplify common tasks.
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Additionally, 75 percent of those surveyed prefer to receive all of their technical support services from a single vendor.
Liberals add that a key to higher growth is to remove barriers to the EU's single market, particularly in services.
Financial services are the single largest source of revenue for information technology (IT), according to technology market research firm Forrester Research.
The new interface also has a series of "hubs", which bring together related content from the web, applications and services into a single view.
Broadband consumers, particular those living in areas served by a single wireline provider of broadband services, would benefit from the enhanced competition with cable operators.
EU's declared goal of a single European market for financial services.
Going forward, any Smart TVs and Set-top-boxes running on the combined solution will allow end users to access cloud gaming services with a single click of button.
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We are now going one step further and adding an NFC-enabled handset to this popular range of devices, enabling people to use contactless services via a single tap.
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Single-issue negotiations on services have not been an unqualified success.
The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) replaces proprietary printing services with a single method for sending print jobs from a computer to any authorized printer connected to an IP network.
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Eikon, intended to replace Reuters' grab bag of services with a single offering, was designed to be more user-friendly than Bloomberg's devices, but it was launched hastily and with flaws.
As the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world, the United States Government bears a responsibility to ensure that taxpayer dollars do not contribute to trafficking in persons.
When it last took in poor countries (Spain and Portugal in 1986), the European Community, as it was then called, was not a single market for goods, services, labour and capital.
On behalf of the Conservatives, Janet Finch-Sauders, acknowledged the benefits of streamlining public services under a single integrated plan and called on the government to ensure that no service provision is downgraded through this process.
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