The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries with the title e² design. The series covers eight different topics – from sustainable architecture to water culture to alternative energy to organic farming, recycled clothing and more – are each presented… Read More

Since a while the status of the multicultural society is under discussion in Germany. A German documentary maker from the broadcaster Südwestrundfunk comes to the Netherlands for research and the set-up of filming for a documentary about the status of the multicultural society in The… Read More

Since helping to die is legal in Switzerland a lot of foreigners travel to Switzerland to be helped to die. The neighbours of the locations where the dying takes place protest against the constant stream of corpses taken out in coffins. The organisations that helps… Read More

The council of the Amsterdam Centre district declared that the tree behind the Anne Frank house, has to be cut down on due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down by itself and cause damage. But a second opinion analysis by the Dutch… Read More

The Anne Frank tree is the horse-chestnut tree in the inner garden behind the Anne Frank House in the centre of Amsterdam. A tree that featured in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank described the tree from the annex, the building… Read More

In Austria the legalisation of gay marriage is discussed. Europe correspondent Sonja Sagmeister from the Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch gay marriage is doing. She finds out that Dutch married gays even can adopt children. Sonja Sagmeister… Read More

For the first time in 40 years the Dutch, English and Germans expect an extremely heavy storm and high tide. The complete Dutch coast is monitored by dyke inspectors and the dams of the Delta Works, the Dutch Delta coast protection system are closed. For… Read More

Europol give a press conference in The Hague to announce the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender’s network. The case, named ‘Operation Koala’, began in 2006 when a child abuse video was discovered in Australia. This particular video had been produced in Belgium. A… Read More

More than 20 million toys made in China have been recalled worldwide over the past four months, because of potentially dangerous levels of lead or choking hazards due to small magnets. Some of these toys were manufactured using paints from unauthorized suppliers of paints with… Read More

The TV-program Monitor from the German public broadcaster ARD is producing a reportage about the German links to the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party), a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south eastern Turkey and… Read More

Just before the new EU treaty is signed, the Japanese NHK correspondent checks out why the Dutch government decided to skip a second referendum on the treaty. The Dutch opposition is busy to organise support for a new referendum, while the Minister of European Affairs… Read More

Because an asylum seeker girl in Austria threatens to kill herself, after her family is send back to Kosovo, ORF correspondent Sonja Sagmeister reports on the actual situation in The Netherlands, where a general amnesty for asylum seekers is given. An Angolan couple with a… Read More