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Tensions within Austria's grand coalition of Socialists and the centre-right People's Party are running high as the political and industrial elite, led by Hannes Androsch, a former finance minister, discusses the establishment of a private-equity fund to protect Austrian companies from foreign takeovers.
ECONOMIST: Austria is toying with a curious new form of protectionism
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And with the former National Alliance party voting themselves out of existence to join Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, the political right here has rarely been more unified and focussed.
BBC: Defiant Berlusconi calm amid storm
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Those who do not support the referendum, and have even threatened to boycott or oppose it, include the two main political parties (the People's Party led by Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif, both former prime ministers), a six-strong group of the country's leading religious parties and organisations, and all major associations of lawyers and students.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan