France Threatens to Review Algeria Migration Pact in Deportation Row | Firstpost Africa | N18G France has threatened to review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are deported by the French authorities.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced his government was giving Algiers four to six weeks to accept to repatriate a list of people expelled from France.

France will reconsider a longstanding agreement facilitating Algerian migration to France unless Algeria cooperates by accepting deported nationals. Tensions escalated following an Algerian citizen's attack in Mulhouse.

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

Some experts argue that France's growing war of words with its former colony stems partly from the government's desire to appease the far right on migration.

French Prime Minister, François Bayrou has declared that Paris would reexamine the 1968 migration pact with Algeria. The pact had made it easier for Algerians to settle in France. This follows months of campaigning by hardline anti-immigration Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau,

The already strained relations between Algeria and France escalated this week. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has threatened to cancel a long-standing agreement with Algeria regarding free movement,