Editorial: Le Monde

• Algeria is refusing to readmit a number of its citizens, criminals or illegal immigrants, expelled from France, creating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
• French Prime Minister, François Bayrou, threatens to dismantle a 1968 bilateral agreement on Algerian immigration in France, a text that the right and the far right present as a symbol of France's supposed generosity towards Algeria.
• However, this agreement has had little real impact and no longer justifies a special regime for Algerians.
• The current French government has not adopted a consistent stance or a suitable approach towards renegotiating or reconsidering this agreement.
• The aggressive rhetoric from Paris and the disunity within the government on this issue benefits Algeria's authoritarian government.
• This situation also fuels Algerian nationalism, putting Algerians living in France and French people of Algerian origin in a difficult position.

Conclusion: The French government, which claims to want to control the flow of migrants and facilitate the deportations of Algerians, must adopt a coherent and ordered strategy towards Algeria. Otherwise, these issues will continue to foster political disputes with no concrete result, other than fueling the far right.

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