After the critics and commotion caused by the PVV website to report annoyance by East European immigrant workers, the Euronews legal TV program Right On comes to the Netherlands to make a reportage about Polish immigrant workers. In a greenhouse Polish workers explain why they… Read More

A three times 50 minute documentary with the title ‘A clean sweep for the Red-light district’ (De Bezem door de Wallen) is broadcasted on March 19 and 26, and the 2nd of April 2012 by the Dutch public TV program NCRV Dokument. In the summer… Read More

In February six specialised Dutch mobile teams, each with a doctor, started to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own family doctor refuses to help. As all other patients, the patients helped by the mobile teams need to face a future of… Read More

After it finally became clear that the Dutch prince Friso suffered serious brain damage after his avalanche ski accident in Lech, journalist Ingrid Steiner from the Austrian newspaper Kurier wants to know what impact the news has in the Netherlands. How popular is the second… Read More

The Swiss are discussing a possible reform of their consumer guarantee system and the consumer program Kassensturz from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen wants to find out how it is organised elsewhere in Europe. The Netherlands has a variable guarantee system…. Read More

While North Korea is known to operate dozens of restaurants across Asia, it is the first time a North Korean restaurant has opened in Europe. The “Pyongyang Restaurant” was opened in the Netherlands last month under a joint venture between North Korea and two Dutch… Read More

The Eleven Cities tour (Elfstedentocht in Dutch) is a speed skating tour (with 200 contestants) and a leisure skating tour (with 16,000 skaters) of almost 200 kilometres. It is held in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. Is is a tour… Read More

The Maastricht treaty, signed on 7 February 1992, came into force in November 1993. The treaty heralded both the creation of the European Union, formerly the ‘European economic community’, and the Euro as a single currency. Two decades on, it’s attracting the wrath of crisis-struck… Read More

The Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam has been in the news since June last year after the outbreak of an antibiotic bacterium named Klebsiella Oxa-48 that has likely caused the death of 78 people. Question arises on how this new bacterium could appear in the Netherlands…. Read More

Saturday Laura Dekker stepped ashore a on the Caribbean island St. Maarten and finished her sail sailing trip around the world. The 16 year and four month old Dutch sailor has made an impressive journey for her age. It took Dekker one year and one… Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about researchers creating a more contagious and fatal form of the H5N1 bird flu. Researchers in the Netherlands have manipulated the virus to make it more transmissible among humans, and it could potentially kill millions… Read More

In Dutch criminal law a convict can be sentenced to involuntary psychiatric treatment in a special institute called a TBS-clinic. TBS is an abbreviation for “Ter Beschikkingstelling,” literally meaning ‘being placed at disposal’. Legally, such a sentence is not regarded as a punishment like a… Read More