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Bar in the city center of Manchester, northwest England. AFP via Getty Images The pace of the economic rebound in Europe slowed down significantly in August, according to latest gross domestic product and industrial production figures. And the number of COVID-19 infections keep rising in most countries, prompting fears about …

Even when coronavirus-stricken countries have shed the last restrictions of their respective, months-long lockdowns, their economies won’t be returning to normal. It will be years for them to absorb the shock, and after the massive state takeover necessitated by the crisis, governments will struggle with two questions. The first is …