The Somalian Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a striking character in Dutch politics. As an ex-Muslim migrant politician she strongly opposes against the orthodox Islam in the Netherlands. She also criticises the naïve and ignorant way the Dutch handle migrants. The documentary… Read More
ABC
Author: Sjoerd de Vries
After a Dutchman designed the Gatso meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now an experiment with a new system called route control is started in the Netherlands. A system where different video camera’s record traffic over several kilometres highway and a… Read More
‘Brothel creepers Amsterdam famously offers sex, drugs, bicycles and a healthy dose of Dutch liberalism. But what does the city look like from the other side of the bordello window? A A Gill booked his seat, while Jeremy Clarkson did his best to spoil the… Read More
While the Gay wedding is constantly in the news in the United States and gays are waiting in line to marry before it is too late, the Netherlands already introduced the legal gay marriage on the first of April 2001. For the documentary program Weltjournal… Read More
In a dramatic television appearance February 4, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of the Pakistani bomb, acknowledged that during the past two decades he had secretly provided North Korea, Libya, and Iran with crucial technological and intellectual building blocks for making nuclear weapons. Khan, considered… Read More
Before the trial of Belgian suspected serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester Marc Dutroux starts, the senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the documentary Austrian public broadcaster ORF program Weltjournal, wants to find out in what way the Belgian system and society is influenced by… Read More
Waste Management in Ireland is currently undergoing radical change. The passing of the Waste Management Act 1996 and the recent Policy Statement on Waste Management from the Minister for the Environment & Local Government (October 1998) gives legislative and policy impetus to this change. These… Read More
Liveable Rotterdam, the new populist party in Rotterdam, lately came up with a plan to forbid migrants to settle in some of the poorer districts in the city. Since it is not allowed to judge on skin colour, origin or religion, some are against the… Read More
The talk show Hart aber Fair from the German federal state broadcaster WDR is organising an episode about the present euthanasia legislation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. The editors of the program are looking for specialised and experienced Dutch and Belgian studio guests for… Read More
The end of 2003 the Dutch organisation Central Jewish Consultation organises a demonstration against the increasing anti-Semitism in The Netherlands. Because of the cruel politics of Ariel Sharon in Israel and the second Golf War in Iraq, the Dutch Jews say they are confronted with… Read More
26% of the Netherlands is located below sea level and 59% of the Netherlands is at risk of flooding from water from the sea or rivers. Some parts of the west of the country is so wet that roads are constantly sink that these road… Read More
After a German woman is caught with packs of cocaine in her body, for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau the Brussels bureau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD wants to know how the recruiting of European cocaine body packers works and… Read More