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Netherlands interested in Italy-Albania model

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said Wednesday that the Netherlands is interested in the model created by the agreement Rome reached with Tirana to set up Italian migrant centres on Albanian territory.
I believe the Italian policies (on migrants) are in line with what EU leaders agreed several years ago,” Veldkamp said after meeting his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani in Rome.
“We do not intend to join the specific Italy-Albania agreement but we look at it with great interest because we also want to explore new ideas and possibilities of new places to control migration flows.
“Italy has done all this within the framework of European law and within the human rights convention.
“We need to innovate and think outside the box”.