Orbán's long-term policy of nationalising energy, however, depends on a rather unsavoury partner: Budapest recently signed a loan agreement with Russia to upgrade a nuclear power plant.
Bennett will want to take votes off Labour and the Liberal Democrats, so she needs to portray them both as insufficiently radical on issues such as nationalising the railways.
Not the Marxist sort, though he fell out often with the party over clause four of its constitution, which committed the party to nationalising the means of production, distribution and exchange; though he scorned the free market New Labour so hotly embraced, and found global capitalism disgusting.
If so, why is the word so conspicuously avoided?Stephen MorrisCoorparoo, AustraliaSIR – Populism in America reached its height in the late 19th century and was embodied in the Populist Party, which proposed policies such as nationalising the railroads and enforcing limitations on private property.
Some political prisoners may be granted an amnesty.Zimbabwe began the process of nationalising its commercial farms.
Argentina, in contrast, cannot even keep honest inflation statistics, and has a nasty habit of nationalising foreign companies.Following a disappointing B20 last year in Cannes, when the politicians lectured the bosses but did not listen, Mr Ramírez has been doing all sorts of sensible things to make the B20 seem more than just a club of rich grumblers.
Nationalising it would be unthinkable in most countries.
But France, Germany and Italy have all decided to prolong their restrictions.Energy of the stateBolivia's recently elected socialist president, Evo Morales, led troops into a Brazilian-run gasfield and unveiled a decree nationalising his country's oil and gas industry.
Why, he asked, were they giving the Nationwide building society £1.6 billion to ease its takeover of the healthy bits of Dunfermline's business (£2.4 billion in savings and £1 billion in mortgages) while nationalising £884m in ailing commercial-property and subprime loans?
