Macron: Those who want us to fight with Algeria are crazy.
Macron's statements about Algeria
Written by: Ayman Ragab
French President Emmanuel Macron strongly criticized those calling for a “hard line” with Algeria, describing them as crazy.
This came during a field visit he made to the Laflanet Hospital in the Ariège region of southern France.
Macron's statements about Algeria
The French president said: “Go and tell everyone The madmen Those who explain to us daily that we should be fighting with Algeria.”.
Macron was speaking to a doctor of Algerian descent, adding: “The system of doctors with degrees from countries outside the European Union is chaotic; it drives me crazy and exposes the absurdity of the French system.”
He criticized the lack of support for these doctors, by requiring them to retake exams, despite their daily and direct contribution to combating the medical desertification affecting many French regions, particularly rural areas.
He added: These are wonderful people. We employ them, they practice medicine and work inside hospitals. But when the day comes when they have to be officially and administratively appointed, we take them back to square one and force them to pass a competition just to complicate things for everyone.
Algerian doctors in France
The French president criticized the National Health Insurance Fund, explaining that it runs the system with an outdated mentality.
He stated: “The prevailing idea in everyone’s minds is to regulate the medical sector through supply, and therefore the more obstacles we put in front of people and for a longer period, the better because it will cost us less.”.
He added: “What should be done is the exact opposite. We have a system that is upside down.”.
The French president’s remarks came just one day after Patrick Martin, head of the French employers“ association MEDEF, returned from a visit to Algeria at the invitation of his counterpart Kamel Moula, with the aim of restoring warmth to economic relations between the two countries, which have been affected by political crises and thorny issues between Algeria and France such as immigration, security, the Western Sahara and the memory of colonialism.
