{"id":7638,"date":"2024-04-02T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2024-04-02T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:03:18","slug":"lebanon-is-europes-most-urgent-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7638","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Is Europe\u2019s Most Urgent Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Subtitle:<\/b> A collapsing state risks creating a catastrophic refugee crisis.<\/span><\/p>

Author:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Faysal Itani<\/span><\/a> and Azeem Ibrahim<\/span><\/p>

Affiliation:\u00a0 <\/b>Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>Foreign Policy<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> October 15, 2021\/USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Opinion Article<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 2693<\/span><\/p>

Link: <\/b>https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/10\/15\/lebanon-collapse-corruption-refugees-europe\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/i><\/b> Lebanon Political Leaders, European Parliament, Refugees, Accountability.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

The European Parliament has\u00a0undertaken\u00a0beleaguered sanctions against chief Lebanese political figures if they disrupt the newly formed government in the country. This is a postponement of the policy that the European Parliament used to induce Beirut\u2019s fractious political elite to come to an agreement to finally form a government. The European Union usually doesn\u2019t arbitrate with threatening sanctions etc. Nonetheless, as Lebanon falls into another wave of violence, after months of economic disaster, the EU may find itself playing a critical role. Lebanon is currently Europe\u2019s most persistent foreign-policy challenge, and the EU has a vital interest in protecting good governance there. The collapse of Lebanon, which has engrossed millions of refugees fleeing the war in Syria and other conflicts, would create a new wave of refugees heading to Europe and carry political catastrophe with it. The European Parliament appears to be anxious to avoid just that possibility, which is why it is taking a firmer hand with Beirut\u2019s politicians. While Lebanon itself has experienced an enormous strain of hosting this refugee population, which acts as an impression to Europe of what it could face, the country needs a functioning government, and its people deserve greater accountability from their politicians. If Europe wants Lebanon to keep absorbing these refugees, it needs to provide the aid frantically needed, but that aid must go to a class of competent politicians rather than thugs and thieves. European countries, above all France, have significant leverage over Beirut\u2019s political class, not least because while they might steal in Lebanon, they spend in Paris and Milan and keep their bank accounts overseas.<\/span><\/p>

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