And he has started to cosy up to several left-wing mayors whose ambitions he used to mock.
Russia, which had been attempting to cosy up to Europeans in the hope of presenting a hostile common front to America, was told to back off.
How Mr Miliband and his front bench team will handle that giant - tame it, provoke it or cosy up to it - remains to be seen.
This is why Flemings, for instance, is trying to cosy up closer to its sister company, Jardine Fleming, in which it has a 50% stake.
There was little surprise that, over the last week, Labour intensified its attacks on Fine Gael as it battled for a coalition place only to cosy up again to its would-be partner in government in the last few days, as if to prove to undecided voters it could form a stable administration.
George Osborne and Ed Balls had to cosy up on the sofa on the Andrew Marr programme this weekend.
In the warmer months, take a seat on the wide jasmine-scented veranda, while in winter it is divine to cosy up inside by the open fire.
The opening shot came in 1975 when fixed commissions on securities issues were abolished in America, opening the cosy world of stockbroking up to competition.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the first minister would rather "cosy up than stand up to Rupert Murdoch" and accused him of a "grubby deal" with the media tycoon.
The only similarity with the Austrian populist he is prepared to concede is that they have both built up right-wing parties which have stood up to the cosy interests bred by long-term coalition politics.
Economics graduate Naoise Nunn recognised a public need to rip up the "cosy consensus" of the status quo and offer Dubliners some robust debate to sink their teeth into.
By the end of 2006, however, this cosy banking market will be shaken up by China's commitments to the World Trade Organisation.
On January 19th his cabinet was due to approve an extensive package of measures designed to free up markets and increase competition in a country where cosy cartels have long been the norm.
Further cuts in public spending appear to have been shelved, moves towards more government decentralisation are meeting resistance, and senior government employees are up in arms at plans to prevent them from being parachuted into cosy retirement jobs in industries they formerly regulated.
To Bassa, we are still in the 1970s: British Airways is nationalised, facing little competition and ever ready to do a cosy deal with the unions knowing the taxpayer will pick up the tab.
Camp is often set up close to turquoise pools and lakes, and travellers carry everything they need in large packs, including cosy sleeping bags to cope with the frigid nights.
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