Algerian President Tebboune visited Germany to expand energy cooperation, pledging to deepen natural gas supplies and develop a hydrogen corridor from North Africa to Germany, positioning Algeria as critical to European energy security amid regional tensions and geopolitical shifts.
Algeria possesses significant geopolitical assets including geographic centrality and energy resources, yet its principled foreign policy of non-interference limits its regional influence relative to more interventionist external actors like Russia and China.
Developing economies increasingly rely on knowledge-intensive services like ICT and professional services to drive growth, as manufacturing-led development becomes harder; however, these sectors employ few workers, creating tension between productivity gains and broad-based job creation.