Military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara says the army is now less than a kilometer away from a safe zone, which was set up to protect civilians inside rebel-controlled territory.

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"If your house became a controlled parking zone overnight, you wouldn't expect to be fined for parking there yesterday, " a spokesperson said.

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She seems to understand the daily frustrations of life in the controlled parking zone, and dealing with unbending officials at the town hall.

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On the BBC's Inside Politics over the weekend, Brussels-based analyst Nicholas Whyte thought that, even in a future more tightly controlled Euro zone, Dublin will still fight fiercely to retain its low corporation tax rate, although this may mean making budgetary sacrifices elsewhere.

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