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4 Contents The EconomistAugust 22nd 2020

Volume 436 Number 9208

Europe

42 The Belarus uprising

43 Italy’s ebbing populism

43 Navalny in peril

44 Depopulating the Balkans

45 CharlemagneThe threat

toSchengen

Britain

46 Unemployment looms

47 Gyms and bodies

48 BagehotRule by algorithm

International

49 The eastern

Mediterranean

Business

52 Return of the tech IPO

53 Apple’s Epic dust-up

54 Electric hypercars

54 Hounding Huawei

55 China’s streaming wars

55 Unions’ weekend plans

56 Schumpeter Xinjiang

dilemmas

Economics brief

57 Inflation

Finance & economics

59 Dubai’s financial centre

62 The economics of masks

62 Monetary policy in China

63 Buttonwood

Bubble-hunting

64 Free exchangeFiscal

federalism

Science & technology

65 When covid-19 becomes

chronic

Books & arts

67 Albert Murray’s wisdom

68 JohnsonLanguage in the

border zone

69 Colombia’s great river

70 Home Entertainment

Italo Calvino’s visions

70 A novelofsisterhood

Economic & financial indicators

72 Statisticson 42 economies

Graphic detail

73 Supportforauthoritarianismisgrowinginweakdemocracies

Obituary

74 Julian Bream, an English master of the classical guitar