For quite some time it is known that David Cameron, the prime minster of the United Kingdom, will give a speech to make clear how the English see their future in Europe. Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher gave her famous Europe speech in Bruges, Belgium,… Read More

Suddenly it becomes clear the Geert Wilders will visit Australia next month. He is invited to give a few lectures about his views about the Islam by an organisation called the Q Society. Originally the plan was that wilders would already travel to Australia last… Read More

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has been elected as the new head of the Eurogroup, replacing the outgoing Jean-Claude Juncker. The 46 year-old Dijsselbloem, who has been head of the Dutch Finance Ministry for two months, is expected to take over. He said he hoped… Read More

The Dutch start the transport of Patriot missiles systems to Turkey for the NATO protection of the cities close to the border of Syria. The Turkish government asked for extra NATO protection because over the last months some missiles have landed in Turkey causing damage… Read More

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