The mayor of Maastricht is promoting change in the Dutch soft drugs policy. Also many other local authorities want to experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation and a majority in the Dutch Lower house is in favour, but the Dutch minister of Justice is against the… Read More

After a possible early work of Vincent van Gogh pops up in France, the Dutch Van Gogh museum does not want to give the painting an authenticity certificate. It turns out that there are many more people with possible early work from ‘Vincent’ that are… Read More

For a documentary on Islam The Canadian production company 90th Parallel organises filming In many different part of the world. The documentary is loosely based on a book by Ugandan-born Canadian author Irshad Manji, called ‘The Trouble with Islam’ and is sponsored by the National… Read More

The Antilles islands are the last Dutch colonial heritage and located in the Caribbean. In the colonial times the islands where used to sell and transit slaves and in present time the islands are popular tourist destination, but are also used to smuggle cocaine to… Read More

While the bird flu virus even takes human lives in Asia, the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC report about the way the Dutch successfully managed to fight the virus in 2003. Dutch poultry farmers are terrified that Bird flu will pop up… Read More

While there are bird flu virus outbreaks everywhere in the world, and even takes lives in Asia, a crew from the news program from the French first TV broadcaster TF1 travel to the Netherlands to check out how the Dutch successfully managed to fight the… Read More

After the flood disaster in New Orleans the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC produces a reportage about the actual status of the Dutch Delta Works, the system of dams that is constructed after the disastrous floods in 1953, and that should protect… Read More

After the flood disaster in New Orleans BBC TV and radio reporter and cameraman Mike Donkin investigates the Dutch protection against flooding and the future dangers the low lying delta might face from the sea and its rivers. He visits the Flood 1953 Museum in… Read More

The next edition of the CNN program Global Office, a program about business and management issues, is about how companies use innovation to improve their performance and profits. For the program interviews at the Dutch electronics company Philips are needed. An interview with Philips’ Chief… Read More

As part of a BBC documentary series about the European identity, presenter Tim Samuels is looking around in The Netherlands. The section in the Netherlands is mainly looking at immigration and how that affects questions of national and European identity. Tim Samuels is visiting a… Read More

At the first day the Public Prosecutor will formulate its demands in the trial of Mohammed B., the world press is present outside the heavily guarded special Amsterdam court, called ‘the Bunker’. Mohammed Bouyeri is a second-generation Moroccan-Dutch Islamic terrorist that murdered Dutch film director… Read More

The program ’10 vor 10’ from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen is producing an in-depth reportage for about the problems some Dutch Moroccans face in the Amsterdam Slotervaart neighbourhood where the murderer Mohammend B. of film director Theo Van Gogh lived and worked,… Read More