The TUC general secretary, Frances O'Grady, said: "Today's decision is bad for regional growth and jobs.
Mr Sarkozy has already suggested that there will be no ministerial reshuffle, however bad the regional results are.
Other countries, too, have problems such as creaking education systems, ageing populations, ill health, pollution, poverty, bad bureaucrats, regional tensions, uncompetitive heavy industries, cash-hungry public services and terrorism.
They are not all bad, but regional deals tend to benefit insiders at the expense of outsiders, so that global gains will be achieved only if they can be fitted together.
China may resent the hypocrisy of Western leaders, who tolerate nuclear programmes in India and Israel, but it seems to accept that Iran's acquisition of the bomb would be bad for regional stability.Mr Wen was speaking in Qatar during a tour that took in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia but not Iran.
Bolivia has an important diversity of ethnicities, but the ethnic mix is similar across regions.Why does spatial segmentation matter?After checking for reverse causality that bad government causes regional segmentation the authors show that segmentation has an independent negative impact on the quality of governance.
And if bigger airlines have disadvantages, like vulnerability to regional bad weather, they also have huge advantages, like the ability to take a traveler almost anywhere, from small cities to overseas.
At the time, the PA's then managing director, Tony Watson, told a parliamentary committee: "Things have got so bad in the regional press now, courts and councils are not getting covered sufficiently".
The Press Association's managing director, Tony Watson, told a committee of MPs looking into the future of local press: "Things have got so bad in the regional press now courts and councils are not getting covered sufficiently".
The shadow business secretary, John Denham, commented at the slowness of the fund's distributions, saying: "It is bad enough cutting regional growth funding by two thirds, but not paying it out in time to help businesses grow is even worse.
