After the murder on Dutch populist gay politician Pim Fortuyn and the striking win of his party in the 2002 Dutch elections the French German broadcaster Arte makes a series of news reportages on the outcome of the elections, the effects of the murder of… Read More
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Year: 2002
After the brutal assassination of the gay populist politician Pim Fortuyn and his party List Pim Fortuyn being ahead in the polls the Europe correspondent Hans Peter Stalder from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to cover the Dutch national… Read More
What do elderly gays think of the success of the new populist party of the late Pim Fortuyn, his party List Pim Fortuyn, and the tensions that arise in the Dutch society he, especially after the eccentric politician was so brutally assassinated just a few… Read More
On the 8th of May 2002 the UEFA cup final is organised in the football stadium the “Kuip” (the tub) in Rotterdam. The Dutch football club Feyenoord managed to reach the final and is very excited because the club is based in Rotterdam. The opponent… Read More
On 6 May 2002, at age 54, populist gay politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by gunshot in Hilversum, North Holland, by Volkert van der Graaf. The attack took place in a car park outside a public radio studio where Fortuyn had just given an interview…. Read More
After the assassination of the Dutch politician, founder of the List Pim Fortuyn Party, but also author, civil servant, businessman and sociologist, Pim Fortuyn the Dutch society is in total shock. For different programs for the first German public TV channel ARD reporters Michale Grytz… Read More
Since Dutch politician, columnist, writer and ‘public gay’ Pim Fortuyn won one third of the votes in the city of Rotterdam in the Dutch local elections early March with his party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Liveable Rotterdam), he is one of the mayor players in the Dutch… Read More
The United kingdom wants to reform its public health system. for a news reportage for BBC News correspondent Neill Dickson visit The Netherlands to find out how the Dutch organise health care. He interviews an English family doctor living and working in the Netherlands and… Read More
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb… Read More
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb… Read More
The Dutch Religious Peace Deliberation organisation IKV organises a series of activities before the Dutch report of the Srebrenica massacre is presented by the Royal Dutch Institute for War Documentation. Apart from the publication of the pamphlet ‘Srebrenica, the Genocide that was not prevented’, the… Read More
In the Netherlands a course ‘how to run a coffeeshop’ is organised for English people since there are more and more rumours that small sales of cannabis will be tolerated in the UK. A crew from the BBC travels to the Netherlands to report about… Read More