Row With France
May 2006 | Political Risk AnalysisTensions with France have risen as negotiations over a stalled bilateral 'friendship treaty' have highlighted the two countries' very different attitudes to France's colonial history in North Africa. The diplomatic row will not seriously endanger relations: the strength of economic relations between the two countries will continue to underpin close ties between the two governments, with additional support from the close cultural and linguistic ties between elites in the two countries (with French widely spoken among Algerian businesspeople). However, as the current French government prepares for its 2007 presidential elections, further diplomatic rows are likely, since French officials are expected
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