13/12/2016 (Agence Europe) – In a sitting in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13 December, the European Parliament endorsed by 594 to 70 with 13 abstentions an EU-Algeria framework-agreement that grants and lists criteria for Algeria’s participation in EU programmes. The agreement was signed by both sides in Brussels on 4 June 2015 (European OJ L 156), and takes the form of a protocol annexed to the European Commission-Algeria EuroMed Association Agreement that has been in force since 2005....