Italy's membership of the euro means that tackling the epidemic depends not just on ministers in Rome. 意大利的欧元区成员国身份意味着，应对这一流行病不仅取决于罗马的部长们。 The European Central Bank (ECB) could hel...
Books amp; arts 来源于《图书和艺术》 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Old wine, new bottles 新瓶装旧酒 Framing policies in focus-grouped language gets politicians only so far 用聚焦的语言制定政策只能让政客们到此为止 La...
Universal systems like Britains National Health Service should find it easier to mobilise resources and adapt rules and practices than fragmented, private ones that have to worry about who pays whom and who is liable for what. The United States, desp...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, said that he would be prepared to continue in office past 2024, when his fourth and supposedly final presidential term expires. The Russian parliament voted this wee...
Few people would wish to trade places with Giuseppe Conte, Italy's prime minister. 没什么人愿意和意大利总理朱塞佩孔特交换位置。 As covid-19 spread he put the entire country into lockdown for the first time since the second world...
The uncertainty has many sources. One is that sars-cov-2 and the disease it causes, covid-19, are not fully understood. Another is over the status of the pandemic. In each region or country it tends to proliferate rapidly undetected. By the time test...
Leaders 来源于3月14日《社论》版块 The politics of pandemics 流行病下的政治 All governments will struggle. Some will struggle more than others 所有的政府都将举步维艰。有些则特为尤甚 To see what is to come look to L...
Leaders 来源于3月14日《社论》版块 The politics of pandemics 流行病下的政治 All governments will struggle. Some will struggle more than others 所有的政府都将举步维艰。有些则特为尤甚 To see what is to come look to L...
In rich countries, most of the economic effort has been directed towards calming financial markets. On March 3rd Americas Federal Reserve cut rates a fortnight before its monetary-policy meeting, and by an unusually large half-a-percentage point. The...
HP said it was reaching out to Xerox to explore whether a combination of the two companies would be in shareholders' interests. But it also announced a $15bn share buy-back plan, almost half its market value, complicating the path for such a tie-up....
