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It's already pretty harmonized in continental Europe. And some of the differences are handled by the plugs/sockets themselves (eg. Type F plugs with both ground contacts on the sides and a hole for Type E sockets).



Well, there's the UK.

And Denmark. A few years ago I was in Copenhagen and realized I had forgotten my mac charger somewhere. Went to some mac store and bought a charger that surprisingly had a monstrosity attached to it that resembled this:

http://www.internationalconfig.com/prod_shot/78140-BLK.jpg


With the exception of the UK the EU standard (2 prong) non-grounded plug should fit any socket within the EU and the grounded ones fit pretty much all of them with the exception of Italy/UK.




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