Bonuses for bankers and especially decreasing these bonuses is a lot in the news these days. The Swiss decided by referendum that the shareholders should decide about how heigh or low bonuses for bankers should be, and on the European level it is decided that… Read More

The Dutch national baseball team is the all-time leader in European Championship titles, winning 20 titles out of 32 tournaments including 5 of the last 7, and finishing as runner-up in the two most recent years (2010, 2012). Their win in 2007 qualified them for… Read More

The German public broadcaster ARD wants actual video footage of the Dutch Queen Beatrix. One of the last official activities of the queen, before her abdication, is visiting the European School in Bergen to celebrate the 50 years anniversary of the international school. A very… Read More

In case the new Pope will be a Dutchman, ABC News wants to know what Dutch church specialist can be interviewed and a package of footage of the Dutch cardinal Wim Eijk needs to be on standby. For this assignment Featurez gave advice, did research… Read More

The NHK European correspondent will have to cover the abdication of the Dutch queen on 30 April 2013 and needs help to get accreditation.

The Austrian public TV program ORF Weltjournal is planning a background reportage about the Loverboy phenomena and wants to know what the actual situation is in The Netherlands. Loverboy or teenage pimp is a pimp who pimps girls through seduction tactics to eventually exploit them… Read More

The EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, has been asked to assist in the investigations into the Europe-wide horse meat scandal. The investigations started after beef lasagna products, which are made by a French company, were found to contain up to 100% horse meat. The alarm… Read More

The lives of four-year-old Sophie and Sarah, aged two, are well documented by their parents who post pictures of their everyday lives, playing chess, reading books and behaving at the dinner table. However, Sophie and Sarah are not children, but a pair of shaggy Old… Read More

Civil society groups everywhere in Europe are gearing up to fight the European Commission’s new attempts to privatize public water services. Civil society organizations believe this privatization conditionality is “unacceptable” and “seriously undermines the right to water.” The Netherlands is famous for its water works… Read More

A Dutch court has rejected four out of five allegations against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. But it found a subsidiary of the firm, Shell Nigeria, responsible for one case of pollution, ordering it to pay compensation to… Read More

Suddenly it becomes clear that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will resign in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander this year. In a prerecorded address broadcast on TV, she said she will formally stand down on 30 April this year. The Queen, who is approaching… Read More

The Euronews TV program Reporter produces a series of reportages about youth unemployment in Europe. While youth unemployment rates in Greece and Spain around 60 percent, the figure in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands is below ten percent. How do the Dutch combat youth unemployment?… Read More