The new Dutch austerity measures also include serious spending cuts in the youth care branch. In Rotterdam the company Sagenn lost all its subsidies, and according to the personnel it is not if, but when things will go horribly wrong with some of the youngsters… Read More

On the last weekend before the Dutch national elections the party leaders hit the streets again to campaign, meet the Dutch voters and to show give interviews to national and international media. The leader of the social democrat party PvdA Diederik Samsom visits Utrecht. During… Read More

With less than 10 days to go before the Dutch national elections, the Swiss Italian correspondent from Brussels visits the Netherlands to check out how the Dutch see yet another moment to elect a new government. It will be the 5th government in 5 years… Read More

The Netherlands scrambled two F16 fighter jets Wednesday to escort a Spanish passenger plane to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after air traffic controllers could not make contact with the aircraft’s crew. Dutch media initially reported a possible hijacking, but local police and Vueling, the Spanish airline… Read More

At the shipyard of the Dutch steel construction company Hollandia an enormous platform needs to be assembled for the Energy company Vattenfall. The platform needs to hold the transformers for yet another off shore wind park. For the last phase of the process the base… Read More

In Rotterdam, ‘the city of Pim Fortuyn’, the PVV kicks off its campaign for the upcoming national Dutch elections. Surrounded by an army of security guards- and accompanied by the song ‘The eye of the tiger’ Geert Wilders makes his appearance and clearly expresses his… Read More

A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been sentenced to a year in juvenile detention after he confessed to have killed a schoolgirl over a row that appears to have begun on Facebook. Jinhua K. was 14 when he fatally stabbed Joyce ‘Winsie’ Hau at her home…. Read More

A month before the Dutch national elections the parties are kicking off their campaigns. The Socialist Party gathers in the Open-air Museum in Arnhem. On an extremely hot Sunday party leader Roemer gives his campaign speech. The party is the runner up in the polls,… Read More

While the results of the European nuclear stress test are discussed in Brussels, NHK Europe correspondent Takashi Ichinose visits the one and only Dutch nuclear power plant in Borssele in the South East of the Netherlands. The managing director of the nuclear power plant gives… Read More

An organ transplant scandal, involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs, has shocked Germany. The German public TV program ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs…. Read More

Canadian documentary maker Sheona McDonald from Dimestore Productions got a commission to make a pilot for a documentary about Woman and porn. Over the last years woman became much more active in the porn industry. As producers and as end users. After the sudden success… Read More

The FBI is investigating how needles ended up in sandwiches served on four Delta Airline flights from Amsterdam to the US on Sunday. The sandwiches were produced by Amsterdam catering company Gate Gourmet, which has launched its own investigation into the incident. Needles were found… Read More