The Economist Continental Europe Edition - August 03, 2019

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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 The future of the Amazon

Deathwatch

10 The Federal Reserve and

emerging markets

An opportunity

10 Baltimore

Saving Charm City

11 Digitalpayments

Thedashfromcash

12 Congo

Ifitbleeds,payheed

Letters

14 Oninsurance,Tommy

Flowers,Colombia,the

future,flatmates

Briefing

16 TheAmazon

Onthebrink

Europe

19 Russian subversion in the

Baltics

20 Greece’s tricky budget

21 The rise of rosé

21 The Kaiser’s property

22 Fire in the Arctic

23 CharlemagneCarless

cities

Britain

24 Boris’s game of chicken

25 No-deal’s threat to

Northern Ireland

26 BagehotThe Tory

revolutionaries

Middle East & Africa

27 The challenge of Congo

31 Tyranny in Tanzania

31 An exodus from Gaza

32 The death of Beji Caid

Essebsi

United States

33 Baltimore’s murder rate

35 Donald Trump’s

intelligence chief

35 The last man of Mount

Rushmore

36 Puerto Rico’s political

crisis

37 LexingtonThe mighty

Dolphins

The Americas

40 The humbling of

Honduras’s strongman

41 Uber in Vancouver

42 Early elections in Peru?

42 Art that moves

CharlemagneEurope is

edging towards the

post-car city, page 23

On the cover

Brazil has the power to save
Earth’s greatest rainforest—or
destroy it: leader, page 9.
The Amazon is approaching
the point of its irreversible
destruction:briefing,page 16

• The Fed makes its move
  America’s central bank cuts
  rates for the first time in over a
  decade,page 59. Lower rates
  may help emerging markets
  more than anyone: leader,
  page 10. Emerging-market
  dreams of rich-world incomes
  meet reality: Free exchange,
  page 64


• Congo: fighting Ebola in a war
  zoneDisease is not the only
  enemy in Congo: leader,page 12.
  How do you reform a country
  where gunmen torch clinics?
  Page 27


• Foodoo economics—meals on
  wheelsDelivering food is
  anything but a tasty business:
  Schumpeter,page 57


• Big armchairs and Chinese
  diplomacyWhy is China so fond
  of meetings in over-stuffed
  furniture? Chaguan,page 50