Nor does Moscow have a judicial system like Britain's that protects them from unwelcome inquisitors.
France, like Britain, has legitimate historical and cultural reasons to assert itself in the world.
Like Britain's Marconi, the group moved too swiftly from holding cash to having crushing debts.
Some, like Britain's, were so well designed that they extracted the maximum possible from the acquirers.
Yes, Europe can be a political headache for a proud sovereign nation like Britain.
France is set to launch a reinsurance scheme like Britain's government-backed, mutually owned firm that reinsures terrorist risk.
Developed countries like Britain have recognised that being poor is a relative concept.
Along with access to emerging markets, China is going for companies in environments with light-touch regulation, like Britain's banking industry.
Like Britain's centrist Labour prime minister, Tony Blair, for example, she believes in individual responsibility more than in state assistance.
The Lib Dems remain committed to the earliest possible referendum on the euro, which they would like Britain to join.
Like Britain, France has stronger ties, and when necessary a greater military presence, in former colonies from Djibouti to Senegal.
Others, like Britain or America, keep information in quite separate databases dealing with, say tax, pensions, elections, passports, driving licences and health care.
Yet the messages that Spanish politicians are using to sell the constitution would be completely alien in more Eurosceptic countries like Britain.
In a developed country like Britain transport is responsible for about one-third of emissions and this is rising, mostly because of aviation.
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But big net contributors like Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are unsympathetic.
In the daily Brussels briefing later an EC spokesman said "member states would benefit from a country like Britain being in the euro".
Like Britain's Tony Blair, and unlike traditional Latin American leftists, Lula's government has made economic stability the foundation of his quest for social justice.
It is one of the few international bodies in which a tiny country like St Lucia has the same standing as G7 members like Britain and Canada.
And parties of the centre-left, like Britain's Labour Party, which once banked on trade unions, court corporate money as avidly as any right-wing party.
The Pope has watched aghast as countries like Britain have become disconnected from what he sees as the permanent, Christian, values that gave them stability.
Similarly, as the biggest recipient of regional aid, Poland wants a larger EU budget, setting itself against big countries, like Britain, that want a cut.
The commission would dearly like Britain to join Europe's single currency.
Other countries with similar electoral arrangements, like Britain, should take heed.
Short of a heavyweight figure like Britain's Tony Blair in the job, how would a middling EU president have dealt with Russia or the market meltdown?
But this is an unsatisfying answer to politicians in a place like Britain, where laws mean what they say, and are not deployed as mere slogans.
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The chancellor has argued that for a country like Britain with relatively low debt and a run-down public infrastructure, it makes sense to borrow to invest.
Dorothy Ngoma, head of the main nursing union in Malawi, says countries like Britain have to take some responsibility for Malawi's appalling record on maternal deaths.
Mr Cameron said countries like Britain and states like California should take the lead to show environmental protection need not be at the expense of economic recovery.
In countries like Britain, which have a large population of asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants, seeking out militants can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Some of these organizations and individuals have even been publicly embraced in the aftermath of the London attacks by leaders like Britain's Tony Blair and Canada's Paul Martin.
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