For a while the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party Geert Wilders is planning to visit Australia. Although the trip was originally planned in 2012, it now seems that he will travel to Australia early next year. Geert Wilders is invited by the Q Society,… Read More

France’s minister for women is to organise a consultation on ways to abolish prostitution in France and in Europe, she has told the Guardian. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the high profile women’s rights minister and government spokeswoman, said in an interview that she would be organising a… Read More

On the 12th of September, the day of the Dutch national elections, Austrians public TV Europe correspondent Ernst Kernmeyer covers the vote and the outcome itself. Since the Dutch vote with the red pencil, it takes till 3 o’clock at night before it is definite… Read More

On the last day before the Dutch national elections Euronews visits Amsterdam to find out how the Dutch are thinking about the political future of the country and of the European Union. A bicycle repairman, clients of a traditional cafe and a cheese vendor on… Read More

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