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Europe Is Losing the Fight to Keep Economy Open as Virus Spreads
European leaders from London to Berlin face an alarming reality: lockdowns are creeping back on the agenda as the pandemic threatens the continent again. It’s a scenario many ruled out after the summer, when coronavirus cases were receding across Europe and borders were re-opening. A resurgence was expected but the conviction was that a targeted approach would do. That early sense of victory has given way to disappointment, and set the stage for a deeper crisis with major cities under curfew and central governments openly clashing with local officials on the way forward. “The hope was that the second wave would ... (full story)