The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national floods simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts. On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

Halfway 2008 Greenpeace published a report on the industrial shellfish fishery along the coast of Mauretania. The conclusions are that both nature and the local economy are damaged severely. Greenpeace warns that the new plans of a Dutch shell fish fishery company will be even… Read More

Dutch researcher Maurice Crul from the University of Amsterdam visits the Metropolis conference in Bonn. A conference about integration in the European Union. Crul presents his research that concludes that, compared to the Netherlands, Belgium and especially France, migrant students in Germany stay behind in… Read More

Although homosexuality is very accepted in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam is often seen as the gay capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in Dutch old people’s homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. The L.A. Rieshuis in Amsterdam… Read More

Watt, the first ecological discotheque in the World, opens its doors this week in Rotterdam. Three Rotterdam night club entrepreneurs want to give more attention to sustainability in the Dutch night life. There is a dance floor that generates energy that is used to light… Read More

In Switzerland parents receive a letter that tells them where their child will go to school. In the Netherlands parents are free to decide to which school their child will go to. Sometimes this leads to Dutch schools with a majority of native or migrant… Read More

The European market leader in navigation systems TomTom introduces a new traffic information system in Switzerland called HD traffic. TomTom already introduced the service a year before in the Netherlands. By using different traffic data streams and a signals of mobile phones of motorists the… Read More

The Netherlands District Court in The Hague will deliver its verdict on whether the Dutch state and its contingent of United Nations peace-keeping troops can be held responsible for handing over Bosnian refugees that looked for protection against Serb soldiers. In July 1995 Bosnians who… Read More

Since the first of July smoking in cafes, restaurants and night clubs is banned in the Netherlands. Tobacco smoking is also forbidden in the famous Dutch coffee shops, while the tolerated cannabis and hash can be smoked pure without a problem. But in the Netherlands… Read More

Faktor Giel is a weekly reality based Dutch television show, in which TV host Giel Beelen experiences excruciating experiments. Giel checks out how long he can stay in a freezing chamber, how it is to be buried alive or to be tortured. How does one… Read More

The verdict is given in the lawsuit started by the group Mothers of Srebrenica at a civil court in The Hague. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths of… Read More