Brussels Strikes, Algiers Indignes : a Commercial Duel Under Arbitration

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THE EU blames Algiers for economic "restrictions" while Algeria demands a meeting of the Association Council, which has not met for... five years.

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Algiers has described as hasty and unilateral the opening by Brussels of an arbitration procedure aimed at its commercial restrictions on European companies, which are deemed to be contrary to the bilateral association agreement. The Algerian daily newspaper Twala has reviewed this very political dispute, against the background of Franco-Algerian tensions.