The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of six women from Eastern Europe who want to work as prostitutes in the Netherlands. The women had argued they should be granted this right under the terms of the treaties between the European Union and… Read More
ABC
Year: 2001
A crew from the long-running British gardening programme BBC program Gardeners’ World will film some extraordinary gardens in the Netherlands. For this a dolly and a gripper are needed.
After the September 11 in New York attacks senior reporter Alexander Steinbach travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage for the background program Weltjournal about the threat of terror in Europe and in the Netherlands, and about the existence of sleeping terror cells…. Read More
Over the last years many smart shops where established in different Dutch cities. New outlets for new drugs attracting loads of European tourists. The main smart drug is the magic mushroom, but there is a possibility that the Dutch higher court will pronounce a sentence… Read More
After years of serious annoyance the Dutch stalker of Melanie C of the Spice Girls is arrested after he threatened her to death. Melanie Jayne Chisholm, known professionally as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer and songwriter that rose to fame in… Read More
Eurocops captures the simultaneous lives of three great European cities over one weekend as seen through the eyes of the police. With a crime happening every two seconds the world is a dangerous place and Eurocops is there to see it for real. The documentary… Read More
Jeremy Clarkson: Meets the Neighbours is a British television series presented by Jeremy Clarkson. During the course of the series, he drives a 1960s Jaguar E-Type around six European countries. The show was first shown during 24 May 2002 to 21 June 2002 on BBC… Read More
In The Netherlands not only the authorities organise naturalisation courses for migrants. In the age of privatisation now also companies give the Dutch culture and language course, often in combination with a job. All the migrant newcomers doing the course get a native employee as… Read More
After the football match Ajax-Celtic a Celtic football fan was gunned down in Amsterdam yesterday afternoon after challenging a thief who was picking his pocket in an incident that is likely to cement the Dutch city’s reputation for serious gun crime. The unidentified 41-year old… Read More
On the 19th of January 2000 the Dutch brothel ban was abolished, making the Dutch prostitution branch completely legal. The explanatory memorandum to the law lists several reasons: protection of the position of prostitutes; combating the exploitation of involuntary prostitution; controlling and regulating the exploitation… Read More
After a Dutch girl gets wounded in a train crash during a vacation in Austria, she is flown back to the Netherlands. The news program Tagesschau from the Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF wants to broadcast an interview with the girl and with her doctor…. Read More
Britain’s 30-year-old cannabis laws, the most stringent in Europe, are to be relaxed under plans announced by the home secretary, David Blunkett. Cannabis – which is tried by more than 40% of British schoolchildren – is to be downgraded from a class B to a… Read More