Letters to the Editor: Still a chance to do the right thing in Lebanon

The Lebanese have paid a very high price for the constant regional interference in their country through the destructive presence of non-state actors

People pass a woman sittings on the ground with her daughter begging in Beirut, Lebanon; more than half the population now lives in poverty, while an intractable political crisis heralds further collapse. Picture: Hussein Malla/AP

Frontex, the European border and coastguard agency is planning to increase its workforce from 1,000 to 10,000 staff over the next six years highlighting the fact that the EU is preparing itself for significant movement of migrants and refugees into the bloc. 

Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen are all failed states at the edge of Europe.