Figarovox/Maintenance – A letter from Emmanuel Macron to François Bayrou, unveiled on Wednesday August 6 by Le Figaroannounces a hardening of the Elysian line with regard to the Algerian regime. But the sketched measures are still far too weak, deplores the former French ambassador to Algiers.
Xavier Driencourt is diplomat and former French ambassador in Algeria. He published The Algerian enigma. Chronicles of an embassy in Algiers (Editions de l’Observatoire, 2022).
Le Figaro. -In a letter to François Bayrou, Emmanuel Macron presses the government to act more firmly vis-à-vis Algeria. Does this change in your presidential president seem credible to you?
Xavier DRIENCOURT. – I would speak more of inflection than a real change of tone in the policy decided by the president and led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot. Reading the letter, if you cannot say that there is everything and its opposite, we still realize that there is no major change in our posture vis-à-vis Algiers. Three elements strike me. First of all, general considerations as that on the importance of “Return to demanding, serious and productive cooperation” ; or from “Find the ways and means of useful cooperation as quickly as possible”
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