But by steering his party very far to the left or the right Mr Spidla would risk splitting it, perhaps fatally.

ECONOMIST: The Czechs' prime minister holds on

The situation is very fluid there, but the far-right LAOS party, with a couple of lawmakers in parliament, has lost ground to the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party, which has a history of street violence, Gemenis said.

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Not very often do you see anyone of the far right and the far left believing the same thing.

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However hard Mr Sharon strikes at Hamas, two of the four parties in his right-wing coalition government the National Religious Party and the far-right National Union are very likely to abandon him if the Gaza pull-out goes ahead.

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We will not make the case that AMD is outperforming their rival Intel right now, but if the stock falls very far, it could be the more attractive stock.

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The truth is that even the harshest of the proposals would be far short of the regulations that were in effect, and working very well, right up to the 1999 repeal of Glass Steagall.

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The far right was more popular in the early and mid-1990s, when unemployment was very high.

ECONOMIST: France, race and immigration

This is very, very far from a done deal, and it's certainly not going to happen this year, right?

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What he has accomplished so far makes him and his employer strong case studies for how to do social media right in the very largest of enterprise orgnizations.

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