US EditionFrance: Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez Pleads for a Peaceful Dialogue with Algeria
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"It is sad to see a country as big as France making history of another country, independent, sovereign, subject to early electoral competition," said the Algerian Foreign Minister.
With a narrow majority, a legislative proposal by Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National found the approval of the National Assembly. A historic moment for France, which still grants privileges to Algerians. Will President Macron sign the law? It is a political earthquake in Paris – and at the same time a symbolic turning point in the European self-image. For the first time since its foundation, the Rassemblement National (RN) has successfully p…
Thoughtd as an instrument of cooperation after the war of independence, the 1968 Treaty has become, over the years, the symbol of Franco-Algeria misunderstandings. A unique migration exception in Europe, it now embodies memory crises and political calculations exploited both by Paris and Algiers.
The Lecornu government will not stand by with Algeria, which still holds two French nationals in its jails (the writer Boualem Sansal and journalist Christophe Gleize) and refuses to take back its expelled nationals. While the RN voted a text this week in the Assembly to ask for the end of the 1968 agreements, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez pleads in the newspaper Le Parisien for "peaceful but demanding cooperation" with Algiers.
In an interview with the "Parisian", the Minister of the Interior notes that the "iron arm" engaged with Algiers by his predecessor at the beginning of the year "did not produce any result".
Since his arrival in the government, the Minister of the Interior has repeatedly stressed the need to renew "dialogue" with Algiers.
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