Western countries have made it a norm, if not a policy, to deliberately bypass the Lebanese government institutions when implementing their policies in Lebanon. As Western pressures on Lebanon have increased on issues such as economic reform and the Syrian refugees, efforts have been ramped up to offer an independent ...
Lebanon’s national currency reached an all-time low of 100,000 to the US Dollar on Tuesday, as banks resumed their open-ended strike in protest at a succession of judicial decisions against the embattled financial sector. The Lebanese pound is now trading at 100,000 to one US dollar on the parallel market, ...
