It need not be: some of it reflects the German model dear to several regional capitals.
The Economist would rather that this were an elected president on the German model, with the monarchy abolished.
In this regard several successful examples were introduced, notably the German model of dual system of initial training.
The best he might get is unification on the German model of 1990, with Belarus's six regions joining Russia's existing 89.
Mr. Sarkozy has often talked about imitating the German model and earlier this year invited labor unions and business leaders to sit down to thrash out a similar path for France.
They point to the fact that Greece is implementing reforms that were unthinkable until recently, that Italy is now run by a man who praises the strength of the German model.
Because while it is true that Gerhard Schroder, the undercredited architect of the German model, was a Third Way liberal, he was not working from the same playbook as his Atlanticist counterparts.
Opinion polls invariably reveal distaste for the idea of a President Hattersley or Patten, in other words a head of state elected from among retired or second-rank politicians on the German model.
In other words, he is leaning towards the German model of a vertical silo in which a stock exchange oversees not just the trading of securities, but their clearing and settlement as well.
The Danish and German model for children in care, in which specially trained teachers take on just a few youngsters and look after them until they grow up, is also reckoned worth a try.
Bickering over whether the ideological mooring of German economic policy is left or right, if its European policy is collaborative or exploitative misses the point the whole ethos of the German model is that the binary does not apply.
This bid has unleashed a Manichaean struggle between the ossified German economic model and the liberal Anglo-Saxon one.
Bill Clinton went to Oxford University and surrounded himself with Rhodes scholars who liked to discuss the German educational model.
They mean regulation, inflexible labour markets, European, or even worse the German social model which he blames for the continent's high unemployment.
What investors are not focusing on is this: The euro will rebound once the funeral of the old German economic model is held.
Still others have tried to split the difference by arguing for a permanent noncitizen legal-resident status for illegal immigrants and their offspring, on the German and French model.
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She did not explicitly propose France as a role model but IMK, a German research institute close to the unions, does.
They, rather than American neo-liberalism or German-style stakeholder capitalism, are Mr Blair's model and inspiration.
The researchers included in their model a hitherto-neglected effect proposed by a German physicist, Arnold Sommerfeld, in the 1930s.
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In addition to walking the runway (the pregnant mother of three remains a Victoria's Secret angel), the German-born beauty hosts Lifetime's Project Runway and Germany's Next Top Model.
Do you believe we could defend our social model or our cultural exception as strongly if France is weakened, if the French-German tandem is weakened?
"It would not be sensible to develop a successor model for the current Maybach, " said chief executive Dieter Zetsche in an interview with German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
GM's big German subsidiary, Adam Opel, is already indicating that it will offer discounts on its new Astra model, to be launched in April, which will compete head-on with Volkswagen's new Golf itself already being discounted.
The way will then be open for those on the right and - it is worth emphasising - left of health policy who believe the funding model cannot cope, and that a form of social insurance, French, Swiss or German style, is necessary to meet the burgeoning demand for healthcare.
Moreover, the German federal system (devolution, grassroots democracy and so on) has often been held up as a model by European integrationists.
In its only reaction to a faltering world economy which has hit most German and US car makers, Porsche said it would concentrate on sales of its higher margin Turbo 911 model.
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