[HIGHLIGHTS] Xavier Driencourt: "The France must unilaterally denounce the Franco-Algerian treaty of 1968"

Xavier Driencourt is a diplomat. He was Ambassador of France to Algiers twice, between 2008 and 2012, then between 2017 and 2020.

He published a book retracing his experience: "The Algerian Enigma" On 27 December 1968, France and Algeria signed an agreement defining the conditions of movement, residence and work of Algerians in France. There were probably two reasons for negotiating this text. The Evian agreements left a kind of legal vacuum on the issue of the movement of persons. The agreements...