His obvious pleasure at the Bremen result suggests that he may still hanker after one.

ECONOMIST: Germany

It must be as far as you can get from the controlled conditions scientists usually hanker after?

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The French still hanker after a political counterweight to the European Central Bank.

ECONOMIST: The single currency

And if you hanker after something truly different, Prado y Neptuno is a boutique cigar and cocktail spot in the exclusive Recoleta district.

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Countries such as Spain and Luxembourg still hanker after the whole constitution.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

And some of his supporters still hanker after the "star quality" they believe he brought to the party, even as they throw their weight behind Ed.

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Though he has stood only once (unsuccessfully) for elected office, he is young at 52, and may well hanker after a top job, one day, in government.

ECONOMIST: Pascal Lamy, free-market Frenchman?

Although Brussels Eurocrats, depressed after the two ineffective commission presidencies of Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi, hanker after a man with the grand dreams and vaulting ambition of Jacques Delors, president in 1985-95, who pushed through the single market and plans for monetary union, a low-key but effective president may now be just what is needed.

ECONOMIST: European Commission