La chronique de Bernard Lugan

For Algeria, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline is a priority because its own production is insufficient to supply an EU that has voluntarily deprived itself of Russian gas. Yet if the Trans-Saharan pipeline project were to go ahead, Algeria could export an additional 30 billion cubic meters. It would then become the EU’s leading gas supplier, radically increasing its leverage over the bloc, particularly on what remains a priority issue for Algiers: challenging Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.

The migrant rush on the Ceuta enclave was opportunistically exploited by Algeria to stab its Moroccan “brothers” in the back. How quickly the past is forgotten!

Heir to French Algeria, to which it owes its name, its borders and all its infrastructure, Algeria—until now the self-proclaimed “champion of anti-colonialism”—has, out of hatred for Morocco, become an advocate for the Spanish Empire. Its media have indeed gleefully relayed the remarks of a Spanish academic who dared claim that “until 1957, the Kingdom of Morocco did not exist.”