Although selling cannabis has been tolerated in the Netherlands for decades, growing cannabis is still illegal. Soon, this might change. This is because the government is experimenting with growing legal weed. Currently, cannabis procurement is done through ‘the back door’. What is sold legally is… Read More

A lawyer shot dead in the street, a journalist murdered in the center of Amsterdam – in the Netherlands, a drug mafia has developed around the cocaine trade in recent years, earning billions and seemingly stopping at nothing. The murder of crime journalist Peter R…. Read More

  During the European Football Championships, which are organised in several countries simultaneously, BBC Sport needs support in the Netherlands for coverage from the football program Match of The Day. The international broadcast center for the tournament is located in the Netherlands. Furthermore, a crew… Read More

He is considered the leading crime reporter in the Netherlands – and an expert on organised crime: journalist Peter R. de Vries. Yesterday evening he was apparently assassinated. He was shot at in the street – in the centre of Amsterdam. De Vries suffers life-threatening… Read More

More and more illegal cigarette factories are found and dismantled in the Netherlands. Euronews wants to produce background reportage about the way the authorities fight this crime. The Dutch association of tobacco producers are very active to fight the trade in illegal cigarettes. They even… Read More

Japanese public TV Europe correspondent Yasushi Kudo needs information for coverage about the clean air policy from the Dutch capital Amsterdam, about the Dutch general elections and about Dutch plans to build a new nuclear power plant.

While the corona virus roams the world the French public news reporter Maryse Burgot makes a report on residents in the Dutch town of Urk that refuse vaccination for religious reasons. She portrays a large family explaining why they do not want to get vaccinations…. Read More

The Marengo trial, also known as the Marengo case (Dutch: Marengo-proces), is a legal proceeding involving alleged high-ranking members of the Mocro Maffia, a Dutch-Moroccan criminal organisation. The trial centers on seventeen defendants accused of participating in numerous murders and attempted murders. The Marengo trial… Read More

For the first time since the Second World War, the Netherlands has implemented a curfew as one of the corona virus measures. A decision that triggered riots in the country’s largest cities: Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Rotterdam. In a working-class district of Rotterdam, the traces of… Read More

Cars and motorbikes running on petrol or diesel will be banned from driving in Amsterdam from 2030. The city’s council plans to phase in the change as part of a drive to clean up air pollution, which the authorities blame for shortening the life expectancy… Read More

The Scottish BBC Gaelic program Eorpa produces an extensive report on Brexit and what the effects of any Brexit deal will have on Scotland and on the countries in the EU that trade a lot with the UK, such as the Netherlands. An Eorpa crew… Read More

The French documentary production company Les Films d’Ici is asked by ARTE to produce a series of nature documentaries about how humans and human behaviour are influencing nature and animals. One of the episodes is Quand passant les oiseaux (When the birds go by), a… Read More