On Thursday 29 October, the Commission and the HR/VP have published a joint staff working document on EU-Lebanon relations in the framework of the revised ENP. In November 2016, EU and Lebanon adopted the partnership priorities focused on security and counterterrorism, governance and the rule of law, fostering growth and job opportunities, and migration and mobility. This report concludes that EU and Lebanon achieved important progress on their cooperation that materialized through strong political and economic support from the EU and the international community to Lebanon. Despite the brief period of uncertainty surrounding the Prime Minister Hariri’s offers of resignation in November 2017, over the reporting period (May 2017 – May 2018), Lebanon undertook important legislative and administrative measures, including a new electoral law, leading to the first Parliamentary elections in nine years, two consecutive state budgets, and important achievements in security, judicial and diplomatic apparatus, and the re-activation of the Socioeconomic Council. HR/VP Federica Mogherini said that EU “priority has always been and will always be to preserve and continue to build Lebanon’s strength, independence, economic development, and security” while, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Johannes Hahn emphasized that “attracting investments into Lebanon to stimulate jobs and growth will remain the priority for our cooperation with Lebanon”.