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    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Wildfires
      Dozens die in Algerian wildfires as temperatures soar towards 50C

      Blistering heat across Mediterranean region spreads to dry and mountainous parts of north Africa

      People looking at burned out vehicles
    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      Fortress Europe is hungry for overseas workers Premium content

      The EU pursues a two-track policy of cracking down on irregular migrants and filling its workforce with foreigners

      A photo provided by the Hellenic Coast Guard shows migrants onboard a boat during a rescue operation before it capsized in the open sea off Greece
    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      EU immigration
      Tunisia agrees deal with EU to tackle Mediterranean migration routes

      Brussels to provide €100mn to strengthen border controls as numbers crossing to Italy by boat double in a year

      Tunisia’s Maritime National Guard intercepts a boat trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU and Tunisia in ‘difficult’ negotiations over migration deal Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Why Emmanuel Macron will stay silent this Bastille Day

      In June, EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Dutch premier Mark Rutte and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tunisia’s president Kais Saied to announce an economic support package that has yet to be signed
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      EU immigration
      Tunisia accused of dumping migrants on Libya border

      Hundreds said to be trapped in desert with no food or water while EU tries to stem flow

    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      Global migration
      EU offers Tunisia over €1bn to stem migration

      Brussels proposes €255mn in grants for Tunis, linking longer-term loans of up to €900mn to reforms

      Dutch PM Mark Rutte (left), EU’s Ursula von der Leyen (centre) and Italian premier Giorgia Meloni (right) met Tunisian president Kais Saied (centre) on Sunday
    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      The Big Read
      The ‘slow coup’ taking Tunisia back to autocracy

      President Saied is dismantling the institutions that a decade earlier had made the country a beacon for democracy in the Arab world

      A photo of Kais Saied with a background of a protest against him
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why an EU arms deal for Ukraine has been hijacked by Brussels bickering Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Luxembourg’s Asselborn proposes EU bailout of Tunisia

      A Ukrainian artilleryman carries an artillery shell at a trench on the frontline, in Donetsk region
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Tunisian opposition leader detained as authoritarian crackdown accelerates

      Rached Ghannouchi is most high-profile critic to be arrested since Kais Saied seized power

      Rached Ghannouchi. leader of the moderate Islamist Nahda party
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Tunisia stokes fears of economic collapse after rejecting IMF ‘diktats’

      President Kais Saied says conditions imposed by lender will lead to greater poverty

      Women harvest strawberries
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Tunisia’s ‘hostile environment’ pushes migrants across Mediterranean

      Racism and economic crisis fuel surge in attempts to reach Europe by boat, alarming the EU

      Migrants camp outside the International Organisation for Migration in Tunis
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Tunisia’s president to dissolve local authorities in latest power grab

      Clampdown by Kais Saied comes as investors fret about critical $1.9bn IMF loan deal

      People take part in a protest against Tunisia’s president Kais Saied in Tunis on Sunday
    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Tunisia’s president accused of stirring racism with ‘reckless’ rhetoric

      African Union accuses Kais Saied of hate speech over comments about sub-Saharan Africans

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Tunisia launches crackdown on opposition with wave of arrests

      Police seize critics of increasingly authoritarian president Kais Saied

      Noureddine Bhiri in a crowd of people
    • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
      Tunisian election turnout sinks after Kais Saied’s power grab

      Opposition calls on president to step down after just 9% of eligible voters headed to the polls

      Election officials in Tunis count votes on Sunday.
    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      News in-depth
      Tunisia to elect new parliament in vote widely decried as a sham

      Analysts and politicians say new assembly will be ‘window dressing’ for Kais Saied’s decisions

      Men link arms and march with Tunisian flags
    • Sunday, 16 October, 2022
      Tunisia reaches preliminary agreement on $1.9bn IMF loan

      Deal will help reassure other donors that the country is committed to reforms

      An anti-government demonstration in Tunis
    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Special ReportAfrican Development
      Dismal prospects shatter Tunisia’s democratic experiment

      ‘Democracy is only real if it extends to social and economic areas — it’s not just about having elections every five years’

      A man waves his fist and a flag in a crowd of demonstrators
    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      Tunisians back new constitution increasing president’s powers

      Exit polls show strong support for Kais Saied as democratic experiment finally unravels

      Tunisia’s President Kais Saied and a group of his supporters
    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Tunisia’s scarred economy dealt further blow by war in Ukraine

      Rise in global food and energy prices hits country already struggling with falling living standards

      People walk in Sidi Bahri market in Tunis
    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Tennis
      Tunisia’s ‘minister of happiness’ on brink of Wimbledon history

      Jabeur vies to become first Arab woman to win grand slam as Djokovic seeks seventh title

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      ‘Afraid for the freedoms’: Opposition warns over Tunisia’s new constitution

      Charter drawn up by populist leader Kais Saied would greatly increase presidential powers

      Protesters in Tunis call for the dropping of a referendum on a new constitution for the country
    • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
      Tunisia’s political crisis worsens as president dissolves parliament

      Kais Saied accuses politicians of ‘attempted coup’ after more than half of assembly defies him

      Demonstrators in Tunis earlier this month protest against President Saied
    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Tunisia’s president is leading it down a dangerous path

      Kais Saied must respect democracy and focus on country’s economic woes

      Image of head and shoulders of Tunisian President Kais Saied in the foreground with the Tunisian flag behind him
    • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
      Tunisia’s populist president promises elections next year

      Kais Saied tightens control of the north African country but has yet to reveal economic plan

      Tunisia’s president Kais Saied
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