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Europe

45 Spain’s crucial week

46 Italy, Germany and the

virus

47 Germany goes red

47 Swearing in Dutch

48 Russia’s economy

49 Charlemagne Aesop’s

euro zone

Britain

50 The great divider

51 Slow off the mark

52 BagehotThe new politics

International

53 Treating covid-

54 The dash to ventilate

Business

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58 HR chiefs to the barricades

59 Bartleby is working

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60 Distributed companies

61 Schumpeter Unilever’s

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Finance & economics

63 Global trade collapses

64 The mortgage market

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64 Doling out greenbacks

65 The ECB’s latest salvo

65 America steps into the

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66 Buttonwood Special

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67 Free exchangePaying for

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68 Covid-19 and the climate

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70 Detecting body heat

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71 Disease and democracy

in Athens

72 Art on the internet

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78 Michel Roux, the restaurateur who changed Britain