However, protocols and political treaties are not sufficient to boost integration.

In the Middle East, the process of regional integration could begin with water and energy.

In Europe, privatization was viewed as a key step in the integration process.

Special communiqué on the integration process in Latin America and the Caribbean

Special communiqué on the integration process in Latin America and the Caribbean

Indeed, none of the current initiatives to boost Latin American regional integration resemble at all the European integration process.

Along with his anti American discourse, Chávez also attempted to boost integration processes across Latin America.

The EU integration process is also proving a powerful driver for much needed reform in Bosnia.

Forty years ago, after legal segregation of blacks and whites formally ended in America, the United States was confronted by similar problems.

A one size fits all approach to integration is simply unsustainable.

The Global Fund and the World Bank will lead a rapid process to evaluate and clarify areas of overlap, comparative advantages and complementarities between the two.

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From the beginning of the integration process, Europe s founding fathers had made it abundantly clear that the ultimate goal was a political union, with economic integration being but the first step.

A foundation of the European integration process was recognition of the importance of a stable currency to political legitimacy.

With Germany s reunification, the main impetus behind the integration process was removed, the financial crisis unleashed a process of disintegration.

The presence of transportation links is playing a special role with regard to diversifying the process to improve the social and economic situation in Afghanistan and developing integration processes.

The response to these failings, however, was a demand for greater economic integration, including such intermediate steps as the creation of a European finance minister or an EU commissioner with sweeping powers to facilitate closer integration.

In 1993, when ruling on the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, the judges expressed clear reservations about the direction of the European integration process.

To be sure, impatient dissatisfaction has been a driving force behind European integration since its initial years.

It should facilitate further incorporation of Gazprom into the EU market through market liberalization and downstream integration.

The regional integration process has been described as a pragmatic framework to equalize the heterogeneous nature of the region and as channelling through an institution the will of its member countries.

A successful process of regional integration in the Middle East will also require a political framework that ensures the stability needed to make regional cooperation work.

So far, European integration has largely been a process of falling forward, with each stumble serving as a lesson from which a stronger union emerges.

European integration is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic, social and cultural integration of states wholly or partially in Europe.

This measure will make a positive contribution to Latin American and South American integration processes and will also promote the consolidation of the Ibero American region.

But integration will succeed only if China and its leaders are open to it.

Indeed, some of the conditions necessary to launch a regional integration process are present in the Maghreb, but a new approach is needed.

Leaving it pending will delay regional integration and adversely affect the interests of all, including Belgrade, Podgorica, Skopje and Tirana.

Get America's role right. As with postwar European integration, America has a crucial role to play.

But that is often the way that European integration proceeds an incomplete step in one area later requires further steps in related areas.

Europe s bad luck was to be hit with the worst financial crisis since the 1930 s while still only halfway through its integration process.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines views the continued and expanded participation of these territories in regional institutions as a natural part of the Caribbean regional integration process.

Africa s Integration Imperative

E. Social integration

(a) The value of integration.

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Regional institutions, including regional economic agreements, development banks and subregional groupings can play an important catalytic role in the integration process.

But political integration is feasible.

Latin America s Integration Muddle

Middle East Integration

Women for Integration

Thailand has gradually liberalized its retail trade since the late 1980s.

Only after economic integration had progressed did the first serious efforts at political integration take place.

Attention should be focused on Arab regional integration and the study of mechanisms that would activate this integration and on reviewing the existing organizational structure of the secretariat in order best to serve Arab integration.

Participation by regional economic integration organizations