FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator holds up a national flag during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon March 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France and the European Union are putting together proposals that could see asset freezes and travel bans imposed on Lebanese politicians to push them finally to agree on a government to rescue their country from economic collapse.
An explosion last August destroyed entire neighbourhoods of Beirut, and the government that resigned as a result has not been replaced, just as decades of patronage, corruption and mismanagement have left Lebanon almost bankrupt.
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