She seeks radical internal reform, re-centralising control over health and education and taking privileges away from Basques, Catalans and Navarrans by putting all regions on an equal footing.
He pointed to Vienna as a positive example of how to manage smart city technology, as it has centralised control over smart initiatives, ensuring they work in an integrated way.
Increasingly, this happens not because of open or direct conditionalities imposed on countries that borrow from the World Bank (though that still happens too), but because it has sought to centralise control over research and policy analysis and put its own imprint on what is considered "good" economic strategy.
Come what may, they will seek to win control of the sea bed, new grid connections for wind and marine energy, and new fiscal authority over local resources such as fisheries.The Scottish National Party, which controls Scotland's Parliament, has made few friends in the traditionally Liberal islands by mismanaging ferries and centralising control of the police.
This is not about eroding universities' autonomy, centralising control, or promoting government interference.
Ever since the Kremlin started to centralise its control over the media, RIA Novosti became a shelter for journalists who were squeezed out of the private media space.
"The language being used shows that people were out not just to support Zanu-PF and the army … What we have seen on the streets suggests that ordinary Zimbabweans want an alternative to the centralising, controlling narrative," he said.
And Alphabet's activities all build on centralising, controlling and mapping information – information that, increasingly, comes from the intimate sphere: our unfiltered questions, our bodies, our genes, our homes.
"Straight-up Venezuelan-style price controls are not a winning strategy," says one analyst.His other priority, to change the constitution to strengthen the independence of the Supreme Court, the comptroller-general and other organs of government over which Mr Martinelli sought to centralise control, wins a warmer reception.
He has centralised control of departmental budgets.
