But the media landscape as a whole is Balkanised, with largely city-centric newspapers and state-focused television nightly news.

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Because of a hodgepodge of environmental regulations, the country's petrol market is balkanised.

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But the better way would be for regulators to consolidate America's balkanised grid into just a few independent, regional operators, and then to give them strong incentives to upgrade the system.

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France must not be Balkanised.

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