Since a few years the Dutch are renting out jails to states like Belgium and Norway. Since there are rumours that Switzerland is also interested, Swiss TV wants to produce a background reportages for the news program Tagesschau and for the reportage program 10 vor… Read More
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Author: Sjoerd de Vries
A day before the report about the MH17 airplane disaster will be presented, for a news report SRF reporter Henriette Engbersen is visiting the Netherlands to check out what people expect. A specialised journalist and people give their views about the crashed airplane that very… Read More
Gordon Watson is recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities of 20th Century design. He says he was always destined to work in antiques having caught the ‘dealer bug’ at a young age. For BBC 2 Gordon is followed while he is in the… Read More
European agricultural ministers are holding emergency talks about the problems European farmers have with the decreasing prices for agricultural products. NHK Europe correspondent Kaori Nagao produces a reportage about a small Belgian dairy farmer that will demonstrate in Brussels to get financial support from the… Read More
Sail Amsterdam is the largest free public event in the world. Its inaugural edition took place in 1975 as part of celebrations marking Amsterdam’s 700th jubilee. At the heart of this internationally renowned event is an immense flotilla of Tall Ships, maritime heritage, naval ships… Read More
From the 16th till the 19th century the Netherlands was world champion in wind power with more than 10,000 windmills. Today the Dutch are stay-behinds because in the use of renewable energies the country is ranked 26th among the 28 EU countries. The Dutch government… Read More
After the public prosecution department in Austria launched an investigation into a speech made by Dutch anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders in Vienna, ORF wants an interview with the PVV politician. Wilders made the speech in March to members of the Austrian far-right party FPÖ. In… Read More
After the majority of the Greeks voted ‘no’ in the referendum about the possible financial rescue of Greece by Europe and the IMF, the news program 20 Heures of the public French TV channel France2 wants the opinion of some citizens in Europe, including the… Read More
Soon it will be a year ago that the dramatic crash of the MH17 plane took place in the east of Ukraine. Reporter Henriette Engbersen got the assignment to make a news reportage for the SRF program Tagesschau about the ongoing research after what caused… Read More
Because the Dutch president of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem is in the media daily negotiating with Greece to find a solution for the financial problems, Swiss correspondent Sebastian Ramspeck want to make a portrait of the Dutch finance minister.
Traumatised British veterans help to search for human remains at the battle of Waterloo. Archaeology as therapy for British veterans that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and ended up with a post-traumatic stress syndrome. An ambitious charity project that started this months will put… Read More
For a conference in the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre the German marketing and production company Schönith Media needs a camera team to film in Amsterdam for a promotion film to be shown on a trade fair. Senior executives of participating companies meet each other and… Read More