France-Algeria: the Driencourt technique | EUROtoday

C‘is the story of a passionate relationship that has turn out to be poisoned, even poisonous, to make use of at the moment’s vocabulary. Between France and Algeria, it has by no means been a protracted, quiet river. Since the independence of 1962, there have been just a few ups, plenty of stockings, however the state of affairs has by no means been as deleted as for the reason that summer time of 2024 and the popularity by Emmanuel Macron of the Moroccanity of Western Sahara.

The crises observe each other (invaluations of ambassadors, arrest of Boualem Sansal, intimidation operations …), and it’s tough to see a manner out. In his final take a look at, Double blindnessXavier Driencourt, former French ambassador to Algiers, paints the medical portrait of this couple on the sting of the rupture.

Its analysis is remaining: France has all the time been in …