Amongst Paris and Algiers, the eternal and thorny problem of visas – Liberation

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–Throughout his go to to Algeria which commences this Thursday, Emmanuel Macron will have to deal, like his predecessors, with the requires of the Algerian authorities regarding the visa issuing coverage. The drastic reduction made the decision final autumn by the government has remaining its mark.–

It was March 2003. Jacques Chirac, then President of the Republic, is on an formal pay a visit to to Algeria. In Algiers, the crowd pulls “Chirac! Chirac! “ “Of visas! Give visas! “ sings in particular the young men and women of the place. The graphic of a individuals in lookup of administrative sesame will stay. Almost twenty decades afterwards, the subject carries on to poison diplomatic relations in between the two nations around the world. Involving Algiers and Paris, the visa, “it is not a consular affair, it really is a political file”so notes in his newest operate (1) the previous French ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt.

Like his predecessors, Emmanuel Macron, on a check out to Algeria on 25, 26 and 27 August, will not escape this sea serpent.In Algeria, the Head of Point out will earlier mentioned all try out to mend the bilateral marriage, ruined for numerous months. The French government’s final decision very last slide to lessen visa issuance to force …

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