The Economist - USA (2020-05-16)

MAY16TH–22ND 2020 Ontheblink—theEU’sbadcrisis Covidnostra:crimeandthepandemic Startinga businessina slump The Mekong dries up Go ...

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The EconomistMay 16th 2020 3 1 Contents continues overleaf Contents The world this week 5 A summary of political andbusinessnews ...

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The EconomistMay 16th 2020 5 The world this week Politics BorisJohnson,Britain’sprime minister,setouta pathfor easinglockdowninE ...

6 The EconomistMay 16th 2020 The world this week Business SaudiArabiasaidit wouldcut oilproductionbyanother1m barrelsa dayfromne ...

Leaders 7 E ven beforethepandemic,globalisationwasintrouble.The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for de ...

8 Leaders The EconomistMay 16th 2020 S eventy years ago this month Robert Schuman, the French foreign minister, proposed a Europ ...

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10 Leaders The EconomistMay 16th 2020 1 E verythinghappensfasterina crisis.Facedwithcovid-19, vaccine-makersarecuttingasmanycorn ...

COVID- is a contradiction. It’s personal. Yet global. It’s invisible. Yet visible. It does not discriminate. And yet it does. Wh ...

12 Leaders The EconomistMay 16th 2020 2 R ivers flowdownhill, which in much of Asia means they start on the Tibetan plateau befo ...

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14 The EconomistMay 16th 2020 Lettersarewelcomeandshouldbe addressedtotheEditorat TheEconomist,TheAdelphiBuilding, 1-11 JohnAdam ...

TheEconomistMay 16th 2020 15 1 I n january brusselswas an optimistic place. The European Union (eu) had sur- vived a decade that ...

16 BriefingEurope under strain The EconomistMay 16th 2020 2 1 governments had shifted: the introduction of the euro and the expa ...

The EconomistMay 16th 2020 BriefingEurope under strain 17 2 tries to influence the world, portraying it- self as a global power. ...

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20 United States The EconomistMay 16th 2020 2 1 they are self-employed, business owners or have an irregular work history, can n ...