There is danger on an agreement to finance media in Algeria by the European Union. This is what the Algerian daily Liberté, providing the information on its website, thinks. The newspaper declares that, contrary to what was initially planned, the agreement will not be signed during the visit by the EU representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini (photo), who arrived in the country on 16th September 2015.

And with good reason! There are disagreements on some dispositions in terms of both content and form of this global agreement of 8.1 million Euros, with 90% of the financing provided by the European Union and 10% by the state of Algeria.

Le journal Liberté cite des sources au sein de la délégation de l’EU en Algérie selon lesquelles le ministère algérien de la Communication veut reformuler le langage susceptible de nuire à l’image de l’Algérie. Dans le fond, les dirigeants algériens n’acceptent ni les objectifs, ni les priorités encore moins les plans opérationnels du programme proposés par les Européens pour les médias algériens.

Liberté quotes sources in the EU delegation in Algeria according to whom the Algerian ministry of Communication wants to reformulate wordings susceptible of damaging Algeria's image. In term of content, the Algerian authorities do not agree either with the objectives, nor the priorities and even less with the operational plans of the program proposed by the Europeans for the Algerian media.

Despite the Algerian refusal, the EU remains uncompromising. "It is a take it or leave it situation, the Europeans have decided, on the basis that credits allocated in the framework of this convention have already been released", reports Liberté, quoting one of its sources.