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Algeria
Team Europe Initiative and Joint Programming Tracker
Country
Continent:
Africa
Region:
Neighbourhood - Southern
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European partners in Algeria
In 2016-2017 ODA from European partners amounted to around USD 207 million (OECD figures), France being the largest donor to Algeria in terms of gross ODA (USD 112.7 million), EU institutions the second largest (USD 61.4 million) and Germany the third (USD 9.1 million).
EU and Algeria adopted on 13 March 2017 new "Partnership Priorities" in the framework of the renewed European Neighborhood Policy. Together with the joint assessment of the implementation of the Association Agreement, finalised in March 2017, they constitute a political framework that will guide the dialogue of the EU and its Member States with Algeria up to 2020.
For the period 2018-2020, the EU's bilateral assistance to Algeria under the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI), with an indicative allocation range of €108 million - €132 million, focuses on the three following priority sectors:
Political situation
Abdelaziz Bouteflika took power in 1999 and gained his fourth term of office in elections in 2014, despite doing no personal campaigning and rarely appearing in public after suffering a stroke in 2013.
He first took office when Algeria was still caught up in a savage civil war with Islamist insurgents, and is credited with curbing the conflict and restoring economic stability. He amended the constitution in 2008 to remove the two-term limit on the presidency, effectively giving himself the option of remaining head of state for life.
Opposition politicians, former establishment figures and demonstrators called for his removal on health grounds, but he nonetheless announced that he would seek a fifth term at the April 2019 election. Street protests after the announcement prompted President Bouteflika to postpone the polls and resign. Abdelkader Bensalah, the speaker of the upper house of parliament, took over as interim president, but protests continue. (source: BBC country profile, July 2019)