The other party sitting pretty is the Christian Democrats, led by Josef Lux, who has every reason to believe that he will be as indispensable to a centre-left coalition as he was to the outgoing centre-right one.
And Blair is clearly trying to position himself as the sort of centre-right establishment party in British politics, the Lib-Dems are there to be the centre-left opposition, a little bit more tax a little bit more spend.
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Rail's city-center-to-city-centre service is also becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to flying.
But the visitors who came out for the second half with the greater intent, stifling the much-vaunted Irish backline - despite losing centre Will Carling to gastric 'flu - and confining the home side to their own 22 for the last 10 minutes.
His foreign circle ranges from Peter Mandelson, confidant of Tony Blair, the British centre-left prime minister, to Joachim Bitterlich, former adviser on Europe to the centre-right Helmut Kohl.
Political tribalism has played a disgraceful role, with left-of-centre politicians slow to criticise their party comrades in Romania and centre-right Europeans giving Mr Orban and Mr Basescu too easy a ride.
Lee-Young-pyo's intervention allowed Park Ji-sung to bisect both Greece centre-backs with a perfectly weighted through ball for Park Chu-young.
Yet despite being a man down New Zealand replied with a classy try as Conrad Smith combined with Ma'a Nonu - on for Williams at centre - to bust the Welsh defence.
With Real struggling to impose themselves, the visitors went close again and were unfortunate that Pjanic's teasing free-kick was closest to centre-half Cris, who failed to make proper contact inside the six-yard box when any significant touch would surely have found the target.
And many of the Lib Dem policies that have been accepted by the Tories, such as aiming to free low-earners from income-tax and contemplating cuts to NHS spending, are ones no centre-right party would struggle to swallow anyway.
But the area - boasting lush vegetation and pristine beaches - is now likely to become a centre for eco-tourism.
In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
Most other Labour thinkers are struggling to adapt their 1990s, jam-for-all model of centre-left politics to the post-crunch era.
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Another testing centre from Wallace led to Clarets centre-back Bikey thumping a header against the post, while at the other end Jensen produced an eye-catching double save from Gary O'Neill.
Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.
Ferguson could employ a makeshift centre-half pairing of midfielders Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher as he waits for his walking wounded to return to fitness, although he is reportedly trying to convince Evra to switch to centre-half.
Those centre and left-of-centre parties which want to start talking about a two-state deal seem destined to end up in opposition again.
For security reasons, the United States is planning to transfer the consulate - which is currently in the centre of town - to a new building outside the city, Turkish television reported.
The visitors suffered a big blow after 35 minutes when Lamb limped off, forcing a reshuffle in which Lesley Vainikolo came on and Barkley switched to fly-half and James Simpson-Daniel to centre in the reshuffle.
United's reshuffled defence, which saw substitute Owen Hargreaves come on at right-back and Wes Brown moved to centre-back, had coped well with Chelsea's threats.
However, there is speculation that, in the event of a deadlocked result, Mario Monti's centre bloc could end up lending support to the centre-left, thereby neutering the threat posed by Mr Berlusconi and his allies.
They were almost caught napping early on when Barry Bannan slid a ball inside right-back Wes Brown to find Stewart Downing and it needed centre-back Rio Ferdinand to come across and clear out the danger.
Hape made his first England appearance in the non-cap, pre-tour game against the Barbarians and has been preferred at inside centre to Bath team-mate Olly Barkley, alongside Mike Tindall in midfield.
The 23-year-old Kiwi international, who can play second-row or centre, has moved to Knowsley Road from Sydney Roosters on a three-year contract.
Berdych combined much-improved movement with jaw-dropping forehands and lightning-quick deliveries to wow the Centre Court, and broke in game seven before serving out the opening set.
Indeed, the co-operation that the PAN has managed to secure from the centre-left Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), whose backing was vital to previous reforms to Mexico's tax and pension laws, may already be starting to fray.
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He has shifted his Social Democrats towards a more market-oriented, business-friendly centre, closer to the liberals' own position.
Hopefully, as the son of a refugee and as a very intelligent politician Portillo is the man to restore the Tory Party to the centre-right and to give it a new philosophy and some fresh ideas.
Villa have also recently signed full-back Stephen Warnock from Blackburn and completed a deadline-day deal for West Ham centre-back James Collins to strengthen their defence following the retirement of Martin Laursen and the sale of Zat Knight to Bolton.
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