A reportage on the famous Dutch consensus decision-making ‘polder model’. The deliberation method wherein unions, employers and politicians are solving the economical problems together. Visiting the Dutch stock exchange and computer company Tulip, a talk with professor in Economy Eduard Bomhoff, and a portrait of… Read More

Two years ago a play group for children between two and four years old, in the Dutch city Leeuwarden, had difficulties to find a new location. Accidentally an old peoples home for lightly demented had space left. The two groups found each other. Now the… Read More

Amoc/DHV is a reception center for stranded Germans in Amsterdam, subsidized by the Dutch and German state. The ARD Europamagazin reportage follows the day of hard drug addicts, heroine hookers and boy prostitutes surviving in Amsterdam. A fight to get lost Germans back on the… Read More

An ARD 40 minutes documentary on two weeks of traditional clipper sailing in the Dutch province Friesland. The so-called Skûtsje Silen. Living with the Skûtsje-families and the crews. Preparing the old clippers and listening to the stories of the old sailors. From the preparations, moving… Read More

The Dutch authorities are discussing linking the computer systems of the police, tax office and the social security department When all this information is linked it is easier to catch or ‘keep out people without a residence permit. The general view is that people that… Read More

In the Netherlands Euthanasia is tolerated, accepted and not so much a taboo as in Germany. When will a law be ready? How is euthanasia carried out in the Netherlands? Why are so many doctors too afraid to report euthansia? Rens Potters is very sick… Read More

During the 1997 Amsterdam Euro Summit alternative movements have their own summit called the ‘Platform for a different Europe ‘. A clourful Amsterdam journey along tiny political parties, alternative art movements, militant pressure groups against cars, gay and lesbian associations, squatters- , environmental- and pro-soft… Read More

Floor manager, local producer and researcher for the American TV-pool reporting on Bill Clinton visiting The Netherlands. Activities: prepare location, furnish and equip the US-pool complex in The Hague. Select caterer and motor bike couriers. Floor manager for all US networks during Clinton visit, managing… Read More

In the Dutch fanatic collectors tradition the Amsterdam family Hendriks keeps more than 80 rats in their living room. The animals are all over the place. In cages and walking around. Every day new ones are born. The family visits an international rat- and rodent… Read More

Dutch company Koppert is the biggest insect breeder in the world. The company breeds and sells 26 different kinds of predator insects. Literally millions of different insects are growing up in huge, dark and hot rooms. Koppert has insect-farms in France , England , Italy… Read More

The special ‘Hit and run Container-team’ (HARC team) comb the gigantic Rotterdam harbour for drugs and other illegal drugs. They search containers and ships with means of dogs and modern observation techniques and high-tech scan equipment. A reportage following the HARC team searching containers and… Read More

Abortion is a daily practice in the Netherlands. It is even said that is is all far to easy. Especially new ethnic minorities visit the clinics regularly. Dutch Minister of Health Els Borst: ‘In special cases abortion is permitted and okay, even when the mother… Read More