Emmanuel Macron feels cramped. It is even, with him, second nature. Warred a country, France, has it ever been enough for it? You have to preside over the world so as not to get bored, he thinks. The position does not yet exist, but the head of state deploys considerable energy to shape it. Since his first upheavals, the war in Ukraine and, since his new election, the changing therefore disturbing attitude of Donald Trump towards Vladimir Putin, have offered him an opportunity to be agitated. With certainty – and it is even better – to respond to a concern of the French.
Thus at the Elysée, to explain this affair-two mini-symps with international leaders, a meeting with party leaders on international security, a trip to Washington to meet with Donald Trump and convince him to “not” be weak with President Putin ” – we brandish a survey published in La Tribune on Sunday According to which 77 % of French people say they are worried about seeing the peace negotiations take place between the United States and Russia without European countries. Moreover, it is enough to observe the mail service of the presidency. For ten days, he would be overwhelmed with French missives worried about the fate of Ukraine; “It’s ten times more than a year ago,” says an Elysian advisor. And what about his interlocutors who, in the European summits, press the head of state: “Emmanuel, you have to do something” (still according to the Elysée)?
Presidential exaltation, energy, voluntarism … Everything for Europe, and suddenly, this radiant silence on Algeria. Algeria which, almost every week, is essential in national news. Would the subject be too small to justify that Emmanuel Macron concerns it? “He talks little about it,” admits a loved one. Who immediately reassures by recalling the remarks made at the Conference of Ambassadors on January 6: “[Boualem Sansal] is totally arbitrarily detained by Algerian officials. Algeria, which we love so much, and with which we share so many children and so many stories, enters a story that dishonors it. “Can firm words pronounced once they replace strong acts?
According to our information, a few days after the diplomatic crisis caused by the refront in France of the influencer Doualemn and the detention of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, the Head of State indicates to the main ministers concerned that he wishes Bringing together January 22. He begs them to each prepare a list of possible sanctions to inflict on Algeria. Postponed for the first time then a second, the meeting did not finally take place.
But between France and Algeria, time does not erase anything, and an event far from chasing another, makes tensions even more significant. It is the Mulhouse attack and the assailant born in Algeria is under an obligation to leave French territory. It is Boualem Sansal to whom the Algerian regime suggests choosing “a non -Jewish French lawyer” in order to facilitate his defense, according to information from Marianne. And tomorrow?
While Bruno Retailleau multiplies the declarations, hammering that “nothing gives Algeria the right to offend France”, that François Bayrou judges “unacceptable” that Algeria refused to take over the head of the Mulhouse attack , Emmanuel Macron does not breathe a word. What does the president want? Despite the rare unanimity which seems to cross his camp concerning the questioning of the Franco-Algerian agreements of 1968, the tenant of the Elysée is, in reality, little going. “His subject is effectiveness, justifies one of his interlocutors. He has no religion on the agreements of 68 but he wants to make sure that it is the best way to obtain concrete results on Consular pass and cooperation in migratory matters. ” And, according to his entourage, “some in Beauvau” would suggest that the modification of these agreements would not change anything. Skepticism or indifference?
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