Sánchez Visits Algiers, Ending Four-Year Freeze

Pedro Sánchez travels to Algiers for the first time in four years, calling Algeria a 'strategic partner and friendly country' and agreeing to an eighth High-Level Meeting in Spain in October plus increased Algerian gas supplies. Analysts and Spanish opposition figures later frame Morocco's loosening of border controls at Ceuta ten days later as retaliation for the visit and for Spain's rapprochement with Rabat's regional rival.