The port explosion in Beirut only multiplied Lebanon’s existing problems. Almost half the population now lives below the poverty line. Yet the EU is talking of sanctions and not aid. Is this the right way to get squabbling politicians in line and the country back from the brink?

Karim Bitar

Director of the Institute of Political Science

Carmen Geha

European Council of Foreign Relations

Luna Safwan

Journalist

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