The fear is that a Europe of 25 will turn into little more than an economic zone, less glued together politically, and in which France will struggle to retain its traditional influence as Germany looks east.
This type of zone irrigation means less water is wasted on plants that don't really need it.
That result fits in with the common view of the euro zone as having a less flexible and nimble economy than America.
Once the euro is safe, the rest of the euro zone might just conclude that Greece will cause less trouble for the European Union inside the euro zone than outside, where it might sink into the criminal swamp of the Balkans.
As people and companies default to their less curious comfort zone, one way to stimulate people is to make them uncomfortable.
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Another study by Ben Broadbent, an economist at Goldman Sachs, suggests that consumers in the euro zone have also benefited much less from the outsourcing of production to low-cost countries than have consumers in America or Britain, who have enjoyed a sharp decline in the price of clothes in recent years.
She said recently sold a studio in the construction zone that went for 5% less than the asking price.
Galmudug is another, smaller zone that has become a cohesive semi-independent fief, south of Puntland and north of the zone which the ASWJ more or less controls.
Its economy is less integrated into the euro zone than those of other northern bail-out grumps, such as the Netherlands.
American banks are less exposed to wobbly euro-zone countries, but the numbers are still pretty big.
The U.S. economy is expected to grow only slightly less in 2007 than the euro zone (2.3%).
On May 7th, euro-zone leaders met in Brussels to consider a less tangible but more dangerous threat to Ireland's limping economy: Europe's sovereign-debt crisis.
Misuari has less than three years to show zone residents that he can materially improve their lives before they vote on whether to form a fully autonomous region themselves which would include ARMM.
The zone as a whole depends on exports much less than its individual countries do: the 43% of Germany's exports going to other members of the club count as domestic demand at the level of the euro area.
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That would be less of a worry if the euro zone had a stronger safety net for countries that have fallen foul of bond markets.
These four countries account for less than a fifth of euro-zone output, so their frailty has not outweighed the strength in the rest of the region.
This week, Asa Hutchinson, under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the House Committee on Government Reform that Mexican cardholders traveling less than 25 miles from the border zone and staying no longer than 72 hours in the United States would not be required to enroll in the monitoring program, called US VISIT.
And America is less important as an export market for the zone than you might expect.
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It was hardly good news, but less bad than much of what the euro zone has seen recently.
This is, more or less, the world of adjustment in the euro zone.
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Turmoil in the rump of the euro zone would batter export markets just as the north's firms became less competitive.
That should make the game of chicken euro-zone politicians are playing with the recession-weary Greek public look much less appealing.
Less than 6% of the service prices in the euro-zone research change each month.
The committee said that EU enlargement had become less of a priority given the ongoing economic difficulties in the Euro zone and there was a waning interest amongst aspiring countries.
Greece is in for a long and difficult journey, but the voyage will be less traumatic and more successful if it is undertaken within the euro zone, not outside it.
With a body like an oil drum, and a retinue of gunmen around him, he prowls the streets of Kabul looking less like a banker than like a footballer lost in a war zone.
More debt forgiveness could be the euro zone's reward to Greece for a tough job, more-or-less well done.
If euro-zone countries collectively injected funds directly into Spain's banks, the rescue would do less harm to Spain's public finances, and the vicious link between the country's weakening banks and its worsening sovereign debt would be broken.
"What's particularly interesting is four new planets - less than twice the size of Earth - that are potentially in the habitable zone, the location around a star where it could potentially have liquid water to sustain life, " Dr Burke told BBC News.
Dosh's latest record, Tommy, isn't any less coated in instrumentation, but it does represent a small step outside his comfort zone.
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