1.   Moreover, the debilitating north-south divide remains.

2.   The invisible divide remains.

3.   Although states typically try to address the imbalance with higher subsidies to poorer districts, the funding divide often remains.

4.   Also, big divides remain on how fast and how thorough such labor reforms should be carried through.

5.   But on this, as on many other issues at the synod, the North-South divide remains sharp.

6.   So the divide remains, with Slovenia on one side and Slovakia on the other along with unstable Romania and Bulgaria.