The Economist Continental Europe Edition – August 17, 2019

20 Europe The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 1 point of keeping issupporters away from each other, and from other inmates. That is ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Europe 21 2 1 theirseats.Buthissurprisemovecould alsobeseenasa firststeptowardsbuilding a ladderdo ...

22 Europe The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 I n thebalticstates, Soviet-eraapart- mentshavetakenona grittyglamour. InLithuania,Ins ...

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24 Europe The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 T he lasttime continental Europeans felt they were dealing with an easily readable, stra ...

TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 25 1 M any officeserfs like to slip away ear- ly on Friday afternoons in the quiet summer months. S ...

26 Britain The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 surprisingly, many countries on the conti- nent see the British model as one to copy. ...

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TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 27 1 A t his pentecostalchurch in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Bishop Never Mu- parutsa sighs at the ...

28 Middle East & Africa The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 1 Mugabe’s kleptocracy. In the years before he was toppled in a coup ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Middle East & Africa 29 2 1 extortcashwhiletheycan,outoffearthat theymayeventuallylosetheirjob ...

30 Middle East & Africa The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 been killed. Hunger and cholera stalk the living. As if Yemen were n ...

TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 31 1 P resident barack obama promised that he would reduce the role that nuc- lear weapons played i ...

32 United States The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 should a nuclear response be off the table? And even if it was declared to be s ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 United States 33 H arbourside cannabisin Oakland is a modern-day temple to the delights and possib ...

34 United States The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 W hen a patientin need of a drug in America goes to fulfil their prescrip- tion, ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 United States 35 T he bernie barnstormheld in Fort Collins, home of Colorado State University, sta ...

36 TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 1 T he electionof Mauricio Macri in 2015 was supposed to usher in a new era in Argentina, a coun ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 The Americas 37 2 is small. On August 11th nobody actually won or lost office: the vote was techni ...