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AnalysisThe Big Read

Migration: tales of brutality along Europe’s borders

Sophisticated technology protects the frontiers but violence is also being used to deter asylum-seekers

Agustín Carstens

Bold steps to pump rescue funds down the last mile

Central bank liquidity has to reach affected individuals and companies urgently

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Virus puts responsible capitalism to the test

State support demands business plays its part as a corporate citizen

China and the US must fight Covid-19 together

The gains from co-operation far outweigh the modest cost of the steps they could take

Can the world afford stimulus on this scale?

Policy injection is more dramatic than what we saw after financial crash

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AnalysisThe Big Read

Donald Trump’s chaotic coronavirus crisis

Fixated on re-election, the president has struggled to respond as the pandemic takes hold in the US

Camilla Cavendish

We will have to make it up to the young

Deliberately slowing our economies to halt coronavirus will have repercussions

US politics & policy

Robert Hockett: US must take stakes in firms it rescues

American model should be the War Production Board and the New Deal

UK government must act to help start-ups

We need a public-private fund to invest in promising but lossmaking businesses

Italian mayors stand up for health of the nation’s nonnas

The virus is attacking not only the elderly, but the culture and traditions of an entire country

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Angela Merkel: Germany’s crisis manager is back

The cool-headed chancellor is the leader Europe needs amid the worst peacetime crisis

Merryn Somerset Webb

Equities: buy for the long term, but buy carefully

We may have passed peak uncertainty and there is definitely a reason to start buying again — carefully

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