The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United kingdom is looking into poultry that is being imported from the Netherlands which contains as much as 35% water. This meat, however, was described as having a meat content of 80%. It is not illegal or unhealthy… Read More

On 15 October tens of thousands of people along the route of the funeral procession paid their last respects to Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, who died on 6 October. The prince’s body was transferred to the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft in a grey… Read More

The Netherlands is called the Columbia of Europe mainly because of XTC production and export, but also because of the heroin transfers to the UK, Germany and France. For a reportage for the program Europamagazin from the first German public TV channel ARD, Europe correspondent… Read More

A reporter from the American West Coast school broadcaster Channel One travels to the Netherlands to have a look at the fight against XTC production, trade and use in The Netherlands. An XTC specialist and a public prosecutor from the special Synthetic Drugs organisation Unit… Read More

Suddenly a discussion arises in England to change the urban design. New theories proof that when cars, bicycle and pedestrians are existing closer together without any guidance, cars slow down and pedestrians are far more aware what happens around them. The future formula seems to… Read More

While the populism of the late Pim Fortuyn is more and more adapted by the Dutch, it seems the natives and migrants do not live so well together anymore in the Netherlands. For the BBC program Eurobrief reporter Flavia Jokic travels to the Netherlands to… Read More

For a reportage BBC Wales reporter Alwen Williams travels along with two Welsh policemen visiting Amsterdam to find out more about the liberal Dutch soft drugs policy. On the police headquarters in Amsterdam Dutch colleagues explain how soft drugs are sold in the coffeeshops, how… Read More

For a reportage about the Dutch national elections for the prgram Tagesthemen correspondent Ingeborg Haffert from the Brussels bureau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD needs footage from the program Business Class, a commercial Dutch television programme on RTL 7 presented by real… Read More

After the huge success of the List Pim Fortuyn, the party of the assassinated populist gay politician the Dutch society is shocked. To find out how the major change in the Dutch political landscape could happen reporter Heidi Frank from the Austrian public TV background… Read More

After the murder on Dutch populist gay politician Pim Fortuyn and the striking win of his party in the 2002 Dutch elections the French German broadcaster Arte makes a series of news reportages on the outcome of the elections, the effects of the murder of… Read More

After the brutal assassination of the gay populist politician Pim Fortuyn and his party List Pim Fortuyn being ahead in the polls the Europe correspondent Hans Peter Stalder from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to cover the Dutch national… Read More

What do elderly gays think of the success of the new populist party of the late Pim Fortuyn, his party List Pim Fortuyn, and the tensions that arise in the Dutch society he, especially after the eccentric politician was so brutally assassinated just a few… Read More