After a Dutchman designed the Gatso meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now experiments take place in the Netherlands with a new speeding system called ‘route control’. A system where different camera’s record traffic over several kilometres meters highway and a… Read More
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Year: 2002
After the oil spill disaster at the Spanish coast caused by the oil tanker Prestige, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the documentary Weltjournal from the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, wants to find out what the safety situation of oil tankers is in general and what… Read More
Two years after the Dutch prostitution branch became totally legal, by lifting the so called Brothel Law, filming director Ralf Gierkes travels to the Netherlands to make reportages for the program Europamagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD and for the for the… Read More
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United kingdom is looking into poultry that is being imported from the Netherlands which contains as much as 35% water. This meat, however, was described as having a meat content of 80%. It is not illegal or unhealthy… Read More
On 15 October tens of thousands of people along the route of the funeral procession paid their last respects to Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, who died on 6 October. The prince’s body was transferred to the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft in a grey… Read More
The Netherlands is called the Columbia of Europe mainly because of XTC production and export, but also because of the heroin transfers to the UK, Germany and France. For a reportage for the program Europamagazin from the first German public TV channel ARD, Europe correspondent… Read More
A reporter from the American West Coast school broadcaster Channel One travels to the Netherlands to have a look at the fight against XTC production, trade and use in The Netherlands. An XTC specialist and a public prosecutor from the special Synthetic Drugs organisation Unit… Read More
Suddenly a discussion arises in England to change the urban design. New theories proof that when cars, bicycle and pedestrians are existing closer together without any guidance, cars slow down and pedestrians are far more aware what happens around them. The future formula seems to… Read More
While the populism of the late Pim Fortuyn is more and more adapted by the Dutch, it seems the natives and migrants do not live so well together anymore in the Netherlands. For the BBC program Eurobrief reporter Flavia Jokic travels to the Netherlands to… Read More
For a reportage BBC Wales reporter Alwen Williams travels along with two Welsh policemen visiting Amsterdam to find out more about the liberal Dutch soft drugs policy. On the police headquarters in Amsterdam Dutch colleagues explain how soft drugs are sold in the coffeeshops, how… Read More
For a reportage about the Dutch national elections for the prgram Tagesthemen correspondent Ingeborg Haffert from the Brussels bureau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD needs footage from the program Business Class, a commercial Dutch television programme on RTL 7 presented by real… Read More
After the huge success of the List Pim Fortuyn, the party of the assassinated populist gay politician the Dutch society is shocked. To find out how the major change in the Dutch political landscape could happen reporter Heidi Frank from the Austrian public TV background… Read More