Algerian lawmakers have condemned the European Parliament for a resolution criticizing the arrest of French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal. Lawmakers from both chambers of the North African ...

Tensions between Paris and Algiers have escalated since last Saturday, when an Algerian citizen who had received an ...

The announcement comes after years of diplomatic friction that came to a head over a recent stabbing. View on euronews ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced on Wednesday that Paris would be reexamining the 1968 migration pact that has historically made it easier for Algerians to settle in France. This ...

What possible crime has the award-winning novelist Boualem Sansal committed that merits being locked ... of it – implying that in some way he brought it on himself. The European parliament finally ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was concerned about the detention and the health of Franco-Algerian author ...

The parliament adopted the resolution, an attempt to raise political pressure on the European Commission and EU member states, in a 443-4 vote. Another 48 lawmakers abstained. Such resolutions are ...

Sansal has been detained in Algeria since November and French authorities as well as fellow writers have repeatedly called for his release. "Boualem Sansal's arbitrary detention, on top of his ...