Overview

• Algeria formally ends the free provision of state-owned properties to the French embassy and demands renegotiation of advantageous leases for consulates and cultural institutes.
• Algeria moves to reexamine 61 French-leased properties, including 18 hectares allocated to the embassy and four hectares to the ambassador’s residence.
• The ministry definitively suspends the 2013 short-stay visa-exemption agreement for holders of French diplomatic and service passports, requiring them to apply for visas.
• In a note verbale to Paris, Algiers reserves the right to impose reciprocal visa conditions on its own citizens under a strict-equivalence principle.
• These measures deepen a bilateral freeze that has featured diplomat expulsions, mutual sanctions and migration disputes since July 2024.