For those of us who like collaboration, camaraderie and co-operation, partnership seems like such a good way to go.

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The extra cash will go on setting up a year-round field operation to lobby all levels of government.

ECONOMIST: The labour movement

The prime minister said his party could "go further" in forging a new basis for co-operation if it was governing alone, rather than in a coalition as now.

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As a result 11 eurozone countries applied to go it alone under "enhanced co-operation" rules.

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The first go at co-operation, the Chiang Mai Initiative of 2000, was to expand and formalise a network of bilateral swap agreements between central banks, under which they promised to provide each other with liquidity.

ECONOMIST: Banyan