The coalition agreement looks at Denmark as an example to transfer migrants without papers who are in prison to a prison elsewhere in Europe.

During the negotiations, N-VA arche and brand new Minister of Defense suggested Theo Francken (N-VA) to also rent a prison in Kosovo, such as Denmark. Even though that decision came to be in major criticism of human rights organizations.

Nevertheless, it would not be the first time that our country transmitted prisoners abroad. Between 2010 and 2016, Belgium rented 650 prison beds in Tilburg in the Netherlands under the then Minister of Justice Stefaan De Clerck (CD&V). The cost was then 300 million euros.

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