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Volume 441 Number 9266

Europe

49 Bypassing the Bosporus

50 Italy’s right­wing parties

51 Abuse by French clergy

51 The Pandora Papers

54 Charlemagne The eu

and the Balkans

Britain

55 Disposable income

56 Luring skilled immigrants

57 Bagehot Defining

“levelling up”

International

59 The growth of private

tutoring

Business

61 Restyling China Inc

62 Volvo’s electric ipo

63 Bartleby“Out of office”

etiquette

64 The Mexican startup wave

64 GlobalFoundries

65 Expropriation in Berlin

66 SchumpeterThe carbon

crackdown

Finance&economics

69 Back to the 1970s?

70 The energy crunch

71 A capex bonanza

72 The $1trn coin

72 Green government bonds 

73 ButtonwoodEmerging

markets

74 Free exchangeInflation

expectations

Science&technology

75 The 2021 Nobel prizes

77 Thermoelectric cooling

78 Sea slug symbiosis

78 Malaria vaccination

Books&arts

80 After the pandemic

81 Fiona Hill’s memoir

82 John von Neumann

83 Sustainable business

83 Colm Toibin on Thomas

Mann

Economic&financialindicators

84 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

85 To win a Nobel, get yourself nominated by another laureate

Obituary

86 Bernard Tapie, entrepreneur, crooner and football magnate