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Second waves will stall the near-term recovery

The speed and scale of the rise in coronavirus infections across Emerging Europe has prompted a response from the authorities, but policymakers are likely to turn to much broader and tighter restrictions that affect more areas of economic activity. This will cause the recovery to slow sharply in Q4 and the risks are now increasingly skewed to a renewed downturn.

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