It is hard to believe that Europe's policymakers would squander their progress in calming the single currency's crisis by botching the bail-out of such a minnow.
The far-right German People's Union won nearly 13% in Saxony-Anhalt's state election in April; the ex-communist Party of Democratic Socialism enjoys support from about a fifth of the eastern electorate (see article).Faced with this confusing mix of the highly promising and the still dreadful, the mainstream (overwhelmingly western) parties are botching the eastern side of their election campaigns.
But Poland, like almost every other country in transition, dragged out its banking crisis: it chose to bail out its banks in 1994 rather than cutting their ties to troubled enterprises.The Czechs paid most heavily of all for botching the clean-up and privatisation of their banks, until the job was eventually done properly.
"But what can we do?"On April 20th a former patient was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing a surgeon at Beijing's Tongren Hospital, accusing her of botching an operation.
He just needs to avoid botching it up.
Remarkably, Brian Mawhinney, the outgoing chairman of the Tory party, who would normally expect the boot for botching the election, becomes shadow home secretary.Both Michael Howard and Peter Lilley get their promised rewards for backing Mr Hague after their own leadership bids failed, with the result that the new team has a strong Eurosceptic flavour.
Huntsman seemed to lose the small bit of ground he gained in the last debate by missing opportunities to connect with the crowd and botching his attempts to be mean.
Given the chance to start proliferating, these loose genetic cannons will leap around in an organism's genes, badly botching up innocent, regular stretches of DNA as they do so.
This has weighed on VW's shares; so has the fact that Lower Saxony's stake in effect blocks any takeover attempt (although the European Commission is trying to remove this barrier).When Mr Pischetsrieder was chief executive of BMW (a job he lost in 1999 after botching the acquisition of Britain's Rover), he was scornful of VW's proliferation of brands.
Mr Bush's team is under fire for botching its biggest health-care initiative to date, the introduction of a prescription-drug benefit for elderly people covered by its Medicare programme.
Mr Browder has lambasted the police for botching the case.
