In Japan students of a well-known university are arrested because they were growing cannabis plants. While in the Netherlands a cannabis summit is organised and suddenly many coffee shops are threatened with closure, correspondent Go Kamosiha from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK travels to Amsterdam… Read More

Traditionally the consumer program Kassensturz from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen broadcasts a compilation of international consumer reportages at the end of the year. This year Kassensturz broadcasts a Dutch reportage about the violent way Dutch window cleaners are defending their territories. For… Read More

After Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, two Dutch cities along the border with Belgium, indicated to close all coffee shops within two years to fight drugs tourism, a special cannabis summit is organised. The mayors of cities with coffee shops meet to discuss the problems… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national floods simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts. On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

Halfway 2008 Greenpeace published a report on the industrial shellfish fishery along the coast of Mauretania. The conclusions are that both nature and the local economy are damaged severely. Greenpeace warns that the new plans of a Dutch shell fish fishery company will be even… Read More

Dutch researcher Maurice Crul from the University of Amsterdam visits the Metropolis conference in Bonn. A conference about integration in the European Union. Crul presents his research that concludes that, compared to the Netherlands, Belgium and especially France, migrant students in Germany stay behind in… Read More

Although homosexuality is very accepted in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam is often seen as the gay capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in Dutch old people’s homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. The L.A. Rieshuis in Amsterdam… Read More

Watt, the first ecological discotheque in the World, opens its doors this week in Rotterdam. Three Rotterdam night club entrepreneurs want to give more attention to sustainability in the Dutch night life. There is a dance floor that generates energy that is used to light… Read More

In Switzerland parents receive a letter that tells them where their child will go to school. In the Netherlands parents are free to decide to which school their child will go to. Sometimes this leads to Dutch schools with a majority of native or migrant… Read More

The European market leader in navigation systems TomTom introduces a new traffic information system in Switzerland called HD traffic. TomTom already introduced the service a year before in the Netherlands. By using different traffic data streams and a signals of mobile phones of motorists the… Read More

The Netherlands District Court in The Hague will deliver its verdict on whether the Dutch state and its contingent of United Nations peace-keeping troops can be held responsible for handing over Bosnian refugees that looked for protection against Serb soldiers. In July 1995 Bosnians who… Read More