The British broadcaster ITV produces a one off program called Four Parties. Four different protagonists attend each other’s 21 year birthday parties, judging which one is the nicest. The idea is that each contributor will judge and score each party as a whole, based on… Read More

In Switzerland a new chef of the Swiss Post is taken on to modernise the system. The Swiss were too late with privatising and the Dutch postal company TNT Express is portrayed for the Swiss public TV program Rundschau as an example of successful innovation… Read More

After the failed attack on flight 253 landing in Detroit, the Dutch decided to use body scanners to scan all passengers leaving for the US. Besides the body scanners that were already tested, the Dutch authorities orders 20 extra high tech scanners. The background reportage… Read More

The Nigerian youngster that tried to blow up a Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear while landing in Detroit, took the plane from the Amsterdam airport Schiphol. The Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs gives a press conference to bring across what they know about… Read More

After the Swiss decided for a minaret ban by referendum, the Swiss TV-program ’10 vor 10′ wants to have a closer look at anti-Islam legislation in the rest of Europe. Besides France now also Belgium has decided to ban head-scarfs on schools. In Antwerp the… Read More

A drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure may help people erase bad memories and even treat phobias, a team of Dutch scientists say. Lead researcher Dr Merel Kindt, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, says the generic drug propranolol, a beta-blocker, significantly… Read More

The Smith and Jones clinic in Amsterdam treats gaming addicts from all over the world. The gaming addicts get the therapy partly together with drug addicts. The director of the clinic fears that gaming addiction will become the largest addiction in the world. The program… Read More

The federal initiative “against the construction of minarets” from a a group of right wing politicians, mainly from the Swiss People’s Party, the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland and the Egerkinger Komittee (“Egerkingen Committee”), was a successful populist referendum initiative in Switzerland to prevent the… Read More

Like many other European states Austria is getting ready for the vaccination of all its inhabitants against Swine fever. The Dutch seems to have a different approach. They only want to vaccinate people that run extra risks to become infected. The background reportage program Weltjournal… Read More

For an investigative reportage about the Dutch military presence in Afghanistan program Monitor from the German public TV channel ARD needs extra information about the purchase of military equipment and wants advice about specialists to be interviewed.

BBC Radio Scotland produce a background reportage about a possible new football league in the north of Europe. For this radio production advice and research is needed in the Netherlands to find Dutch football specialists to interview.

A right wing party has officially requested a referendum to see if a majority of the Swiss are in favour of a new law to ban minarets. Since the Netherlands is known to house a large number of mosques of which some have minarets, the… Read More