In the Netherlands there are insect farms where grasshoppers, crickets and all kinds of worms are produced. According to Arnold van Huis, a professor at the laboratory of entomology at the Wageningen University, the world population is expected to hit 9 billion by 2050, and… Read More

Richard Nieuwenhuizen was doing what he loved: watching his son play football and helping out his local club by running the touchline as a volunteer linesman. Last Monday the 41-year-old father’s passion for football cost him his life. Dutch public prosecutors announced on Tuesday that… Read More

Nato has approved the deployment of Patriot anti-missile batteries along Turkey’s border with Syria. The long-expected move emerged from a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels, and amid growing fears that Syria could use chemical weapons. Nato’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said “The… Read More

For a four hour ABC documentary about the Bible, hosted by Christiane Amanpour, a romantic looking boat is needed to film the presenter sailing through the Amsterdam canals, drenched by the autumn sun. For this documentary series Featurez did research and organised a romantic salon… Read More

Steve Jobs‘ yacht was unveiled in a Dutch shipyard, where the unusual boat designed by Jobs and famed minimalist designer Philippe Starck, was christened “Venus,” after the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. The finished ship was launched at shipbuilder Koninklijke… Read More

Like in other parts of the world also the Dutch are thinking about winning shale gas. Some tests were done, and a journalist from Euronews wants to know if the moratorium on these shale gas test drillings is now lifted. It turns out that the… Read More

In Germany a congress is organised about the security in hospitals against resistant bacteria and viruses. The German public TV reportage program Tagesthemen wants to find out how the Dutch are protecting patients and hospital personnel against antibiotics resistant bacteria. It turns out that washing… Read More

Several important works of art of considerable value have been stolen from the Kunsthal art gallery in Rotterdam in an overnight burglary. The stolen works are Picasso’s Harlequin Head (1971), two 1901 Monet canvases (Waterloo Bridge, London and Charing Cross Bridge, London), Matisse’s Reading Girl… Read More

For a while the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party Geert Wilders is planning to visit Australia. Although the trip was originally planned in 2012, it now seems that he will travel to Australia early next year. Geert Wilders is invited by the Q Society,… Read More

France’s minister for women is to organise a consultation on ways to abolish prostitution in France and in Europe, she has told the Guardian. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the high profile women’s rights minister and government spokeswoman, said in an interview that she would be organising a… Read More

On the 12th of September, the day of the Dutch national elections, Austrians public TV Europe correspondent Ernst Kernmeyer covers the vote and the outcome itself. Since the Dutch vote with the red pencil, it takes till 3 o’clock at night before it is definite… Read More

On the last day before the Dutch national elections Euronews visits Amsterdam to find out how the Dutch are thinking about the political future of the country and of the European Union. A bicycle repairman, clients of a traditional cafe and a cheese vendor on… Read More