In that hackneyed phrase, we need a third way between privatisation and centralised state provision.
Surrendering sovereignty is hard for any government in France, with its tradition of a powerful centralised state.
He still believes in strong government intervention in a powerful centralised state.
The Serbs refuse to countenance any more power going to Sarajevo and many Croats want their own entity, whereas most Bosniaks would like to see a more centralised state.
France's parliament gave its initial backing to a draft law that would devolve more power to the regions, in what has been called the biggest constitutional change since Napoleon forged a highly centralised state.
The woman who set out to change the system, he imagines, would have recognised the change from what we knew, a centralised unitary state to a devolved, increasingly federal way of governing, as a means of maintaining her belief in Britain.
France, after all, still believes more strongly in the centralised nation-state.
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Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron do share an analysis of the British state as over-centralised and bureaucratic.
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The British state will stay extraordinarily centralised by European and American standards, says Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
For one thing, the parties have in common not only some specific policies but a broader critique of the state as over-centralised and bureaucratic.
France, you might say, has elements of both American and Chinese political cultures: it is a democracy with a strong, centralised administration and a predilection for state planning.
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Add in legal and institutional barriers (Germany is a federal state, Poland a centralised one, something that almost killed the sewage plant), and the road to a common future for the two cities looks bumpy.
There, power was handed to the regions in the 1970s after widespread dissatisfaction with a state that had become over-centralised under Franco.
Throughout the region, wages and working conditions are still largely set by centralised agreements among powerful trade unions, employers and the state.
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