Mr Bush wants to create a Gulf Opportunity Zone with tax breaks and regulatory rollbacks to lure in entrepreneurs.

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Mr Sarkozy, in particular, sees an opportunity to turn the euro zone into an exclusive (and perhaps more protectionist) hard core, dominated by France and Germany.

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EU's enlargement to include ten new member countries, which took place last May, was sold as a golden opportunity to expand a European zone of peace, prosperity and co-operation into the former Soviet block.

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We had the opportunity to tour the Zone with Margaret May, Director of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Community Center and David Warm, Executive Director of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC).

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Regulators will be pulled out of their comfort zone, but they will have an opportunity to implement new regulations which are clearer and easier to enforce.

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