First Independent Mena Newspaper
France has formally suspended a bilateral agreement with Algeria that had allowed holders of diplomatic and service passports to enter French territory without a visa. The decision was published in the official bulletin on August 19, marking the definitive end of a 12-year-old diplomatic privilege and signals a new phase of hardened relations between Paris […]
France has re-imposed visa requirements for holders of Algerian diplomatic passports, in reaction to Algeria’s refusal to take its nationals expelled by France for violating local laws. Some 10,000 members of the Algerian nomenklatura and their families have diplomatic passports, offering them visa-free access to France under a bilateral deal signed in 2007. French interior […]