{"id":325762,"date":"2025-08-07T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325762\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:36:16","slug":"macron-takes-aim-at-algerian-officials-in-major-diplomatic-escalation-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325762\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron takes aim at Algerian officials in major diplomatic escalation \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSince the outbreak of this crisis, which France caused, it has chosen to approach it with the logic of force and escalation. It has resorted to threats, ultimatums and diktats, ignoring the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Algeria_MFA\/status\/1953445710549991616\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Algeria_MFA\/status\/1953445710549991616\" target=\"_blank\">Algeria does not submit<\/a> to any form of pressure, coercion or blackmail, regardless of its source or nature,\u201d\u00a0the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Macron had sought to maintain diplomatic ties with Algeria and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-warning-french-government-plans-step-up-conflict-algeria-diplomatic-spat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was eager to de-escalate<\/a>. miniHe now appears to have lost patience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no choice but to adopt a firmer approach,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/politique\/emmanuel-macron-au-figaro-nous-n-avons-pas-d-autre-choix-que-d-adopter-une-approche-de-plus-grande-fermete-avec-l-algerie-20250806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macron told right-wing daily Le Figaro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Relations with Algeria are also a hot topic for the French president domestically. Algerians make up France\u2019s largest immigrant community, and millions of French citizens are of Algerian descent. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, far-right and right-wing figures \u2014 including current Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau \u2014 have made cracking down on Algeria and Algerian immigration central to their political platforms.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSince the outbreak of this crisis, which France caused, it has chosen to approach it with the logic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2740,2741,34,2000,55215,299,36,38,2348,40,13302,43,6489,48,13466,6863,28114],"class_list":{"0":"post-325762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-algeria","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-in-africa","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-french-politics","16":"tag-history","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","19":"tag-macron","20":"tag-morocco","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-terrorism","23":"tag-visas","24":"tag-western-sahara"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988697802735372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}