On the 8th of May 2002 the UEFA cup final is organised in the football stadium the “Kuip” (the tub) in Rotterdam. The Dutch football club Feyenoord managed to reach the final and is very excited because the club is based in Rotterdam. The opponent… Read More

On 6 May 2002, at age 54, populist gay politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by gunshot in Hilversum, North Holland, by Volkert van der Graaf. The attack took place in a car park outside a public radio studio where Fortuyn had just given an interview…. Read More

After the assassination of the Dutch politician, founder of the List Pim Fortuyn Party, but also author, civil servant, businessman and sociologist, Pim Fortuyn the Dutch society is in total shock. For different programs for the first German public TV channel ARD reporters Michale Grytz… Read More

Since Dutch politician, columnist, writer and ‘public gay’ Pim Fortuyn won one third of the votes in the city of Rotterdam in the Dutch local elections early March with his party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Liveable Rotterdam), he is one of the mayor players in the Dutch… Read More

The United kingdom wants to reform its public health system. for a news reportage for  BBC News correspondent Neill Dickson visit The Netherlands to find out how the Dutch organise health care. He interviews an English family doctor living and working in the Netherlands and… Read More

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb… Read More

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb… Read More

The Dutch Religious Peace Deliberation organisation IKV organises a series of activities before the Dutch report of the Srebrenica massacre is presented by the Royal Dutch Institute for War Documentation. Apart from the publication of the pamphlet ‘Srebrenica, the Genocide that was not prevented’, the… Read More

In the Netherlands a course ‘how to run a coffeeshop’ is organised for English people since there are more and more rumours that small sales of cannabis will be tolerated in the UK. A crew from the BBC travels to the Netherlands to report about… Read More

Hooligans: Storm Over Europe is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Amsterdam based game developer DarXabre and released for the PC in 2002. The game is played out over a football season and the object of the game is to become the… Read More

After long talks and a lot of research the Netherlands will finally start a small experiment in giving free heroine to problematic drug addicts. Apart from this the cities Rotterdam and The Hague habe set up so called living rooms for hard drugs addicts, where… Read More

The war crimes trial of the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević has a restart and the Austrian public TV channel ORF needs a camera crew and equipment for a quick news stand-up in front of the International Criminal Tribunal for… Read More