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Volume 434 Number 9187

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
57 Corporate top dogs
58 Essential shopping
58 HR chiefs to the barricades
59 Bartleby is working
remotely
60 Distributed companies
61 Schumpeter Unilever’s
home front

Finance & economics
63 Global trade collapses
64 The mortgage market
sickens
64 Doling out greenbacks
65 The ECB’s latest salvo
65 America steps into the
oil market
66 Buttonwood Special
situations
67 Free exchangePaying for
the pandemic

Science & technology
68 Covid-19 and the climate
69 Covid-19 and pollution
70 Detecting body heat

Books & arts
71 Disease and democracy
in Athens
72 Art on the internet
73 The Italian Renaissance
74 Bulgakov’s scourge
74 Emily St John Mandel’s
new novel

Economic & financial indicators
76 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphic detail
77 The northern-hemisphere winter that wasn’t

Obituary
78 Michel Roux, the restaurateur who changed Britain
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