It appears that the authorities are running out of ways to feed the treasury, so they've decided to charge people to gain access electronically to the Official Gazette Service, which is a journal that contains all applicable legislative and regulatory texts and is published weekly by the President of Council of Ministers . Prior to that, the gazette was free of charge online, as is the case in several countries around the world. The funny…

The Constitutional Council annulled yesterday 7 articles in the 2018 budget including Article 49 which allowed any foreign national who invests in a real estate starting at around $500,000 inside Beirut and $330,000 elsewhere to obtain a permanent Lebanese residency. The article was seen by many as paving the way for naturalization while those in favor of the article saw in it an opportunity to attract foreign investments. Personally speaking, I was against it for…