Expert: Pandemic May Have Tempered Algeria-Morocco Tensions, Says Middle East Analyst

"At this stage, and perhaps due to the pandemic as well, Algerian-Moroccan tensions have not experienced concrete exacerbation. For a confrontation to occur, powers would have to have an interest in it and support one country against the other. I hardly see any candidates, especially since this would also mean a threat to the stability of Europe - one can hope that Brussels would at least know how to prevent this from happening..." he said in an interview with TSA.

Returning to the normalization agreement between Morocco and Israel, Gilles Kepel indicated that beyond the political effects, Rabat’s signing of the "Abraham Accords" seems above all to allow the kingdom to engage more in the integration of its economy into globalization, which is conducive to development.

"Joe Biden has indicated that he will not go back on this legacy of his predecessor," the French political scientist recalled, stressing that paradoxically, whatever the modalities, it is Algeria’s international openness that can help it get out of a rentier policy and engage with optimism towards the future.