From our special correspondent in Algiers
Installed in an arc in the courtyard of the French high school in Algiers, the twenty or so Franco-Algerian students debate with Élisabeth Borne.
“At the heart of this relationship, there are our young people, the prospects that we can give them and that obviously goes through education, culture, also through cooperation in the economic field”
, insists the Prime Minister Monday, at the the day after his arrival on the other side of the Mediterranean.
For her first trip abroad since settling in Matignon, the head of government landed on slippery ground.
Franco-Algerian relations are just emerging from a long period of cold.
And, despite Emmanuel Macron's visit last August, which resulted in the promise of a "renewed partnership", all the irritants have not been cleared up.
Starting with the subject of visas, restricted by France for more than a year to force Algeria to facilitate the return of its nationals present in situation...
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