Indians elected a nationalist government in March for the first time in five decades.
The Nationalist devolved Scottish government thinks that if Scottish companies can establish a lead in marine energy, much as Denmark did in wind power, it could be a big job and wealth creator for the country.
At that time, some British security chiefs argued for a different approach, as did the Irish government and nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland.
Its part-time Scottish secretary appears unable to counter Alex Salmond, the wily nationalist leader of the Scottish government, who aims to drive a wedge between Westminster and Holyrood.
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Fiji is now run by an elected coalition government dominated by the nationalist Fijian United Party of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.
Bush announced that the United States would place financial sanctions on Batasuna, a Basque nationalist political party that the Spanish government says is the political wing of ETA, a militant separatist group fighting for an independent homeland.
Reports said the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Goa had rejected the proposal after misgivings in the party.
Some officials accused of bias towards the outgoing government led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are likely to be asked to go on extended leave.
After a general election in strife-ridden Macedonia , a coalition of moderate Slavs and the more nationalistic of the two main ethnic Albanian parties prepared to replace a government led by the more nationalist Slav party.
The moderate, peace-minded Basque Nationalist Party, which runs the regional government and has five seats in parliament in Madrid (where it generally supports Mr Aznar's government in important votes), sat mum for a couple of days before lambasting the verdict.
They have taken to the streets only to make nationalist points, and in support of the government.
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The concession enraged the Swiss People's Party, the smallest and most nationalist of the four parties that share power in government.
In other European countries where nationalist parties demanded self-rule for their region, regional government successfully met those demands, and satisfied all but the extremists.
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He lacks Mr Pasalic's authority in government circles, yet the old-time conservative nationalist is respected within the party and acceptable to a broader sweep of Croats.
By contrast, the party that might hope to gain from Mr Milosevic's death is the nationalist Serbian Radical Party, which although it is not in government is already the strongest in parliament.
Added to that, Vojislav Seselj, the head of the ultra-nationalist Radical Party, has said he is withdrawing support from the government.
The ultra-nationalist National Union Party may well swing its four votes behind a Labourless government too.
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Mr Currin met nationalist residents opposed to the annual parade, as well as Orangemen and government officials last week.
Mr Olmert, however, brought the right-wing nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party into his coalition last autumn, which shields the government from collapse but also blocks serious pro-peace moves.
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The new government will be urged to take a radical approach by the Nationalist MSP Alex Neil, who is taking advice from a former senior manager at Scottish Enterprise.
The initial lustre of the government that emerged under Gamal Abdel Nasser, a pan-Arab nationalist who was both visionary reformer and stern dictator, made Egypt a model for other Arab states.
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Meanwhile Fianna Fail, the most nationalist of the Irish Republic's parties, is set to lead the next government in Dublin.
But the event, sponsored by the British government and others, mattered to many, not least the ruling Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP).
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Mr Vajpayee heads a coalition government and faces strong opposition to compromise from hardliners within his own Hindu-nationalist party.
Mr Ibarretxe put his Basque regional government together in the autumn of 1998 with support from Herri Batasuna and a smaller nationalist splinter.
In Spain the minority Socialist Government has had to moderate its plans so as to get the blessing of the Basque Nationalist Party.
But the new British government, like its predecessor, ignores loyalist transgressions to make wider negotiations possible, and because the nationalist and non-sectarian parties in the talks regard their spokesmen so highly.
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