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4 Contents The EconomistJune 27th 2020

Volume 435 Number 9200

Europe

38 American troops go home

39 Italy’s popular premier

42 Ghost yachts in France

42 War-crimes charges for

Kosovo’s president

43 Women and drugs

44 Charlemagne Germany

takesthelead

Britain

45 Keir Starmer’s progress

46 Virtual agricultural shows

48 BagehotMunira Mirza,

revolutionary conservative

International

49 E-sports rising

Business

51 The new admen

53 Antitrusting Apple

53 Oil firms’ plastic hedge

54 Bartleby Mid-year memo

55 Dining...

55 ...and wining

56 SchumpeterUndead

music

Finance & economics

57 Commercial property

60 Wirecard’s fall from grace

60 Race and economics

61 Buttonwood The value

creed

62 China’s exporters

62 The IMF’s grim outlook

63 Free exchangeIndia’s

labourlaws

Science & technology

64 Preventing pandemics

Books & arts

68 Cops on TV

69 Trade wars

70 JohnsonCoronaspeak

71 Home Entertainment

How to make cholent

71 “Pride and Prejudice”

72 PerspectivesHIV/AIDs

Economic & financial indicators

76 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

77 ThelegacyoftheHumanGenomeProject

Obituary

78 Vera Lynn, sweetheart of a nation