Plans for a minimum wage for temporary workers and to expropriate shareholders in failing banks send chills down liberal spines.
At first, friends of Macedonia thought this must be some sort of one-off joke designed to gain a rise out of the Greeks, who believe that the Macedonians are trying to expropriate symbols of Hellenism.
His populist calls to nationalise South Africa's mines and banks and to expropriate white-owned land without compensation may have embarrassed Mr Zuma, but they resonate with the country's millions of disillusioned, unemployed poor.
But there is one reason to fear leaving the ownership of the oil reserves to a new Iraqi government namely, that its members would face an enormous temptation to expropriate them for their own advantage.
The prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, is refusing to make the spending cuts mandated by international lenders and has floated a new law that would partially expropriate foreign banks' loan books.It would be worrying enough if the European Union's weakest economy defaults, devalues or implodes.
AFTER two years of unsuccessful negotiations, the South African authorities are poised to expropriate a white-owned farm in the North West province.
See articleBreaking the rules (again Argentina announced that it would expropriate and nationalise 51% of YPF, the former state oil company now controlled by Spain's Repsol.
Now, under pressure from its core supporters, the government says it will expropriate more land and review the willing-seller-willing-buyer principle under which it has operated so far.In January, the Pniel farm in Northern Cape province became the first to be expropriated after its owner, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the government failed to agree on the terms of a sale.
Others more wisely from this newspaper's point of view would have him cling more vigorously to the New Labour reform agenda that the Tories are trying to expropriate.
In September the president fired his energy minister after Brazil objected to his plan to expropriate refineries owned by Petrobras.
It included proposals for extensive media control ("measures to promote the democratisation of the media"); a new tax bracket for the super-rich; changes to farm land laws which would have made it easier for the government to expropriate agricultural land without compensation; and a relaxation of the country's abortion controls.
