Doctors in The Netherlands help thousands of people to die each year. Because the Dutch Lower house discusses a law proposal to legalise euthanasia under strict conditions, a BBC reporter travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage about euthanasia. The mother of Nelleke… Read More

After the son of the Peerbooms family had an accident with his motor bike he ends up in a hospital. Sadly enough he stays in a coma and after a while the responsible doctor suggests that it is maybe better to carry out euthanasia. The… Read More

In a large-scale joint operation, Italian and Russian police have arrested 11 members (eight Italians and three Russians) of an international child pornography network that traded videos of violence, torture and murder of children on the internet. The videos were sold to customers in Germany,… Read More

A few months after the disastrous explosions at the firework factory in Enschede, the local football club FC Twente organises a benefit match against the German football club Werder Bremen for the victims and the surviving relatives. The right moment for Europe correspondent Ingeborg Haffert… Read More

During the European Football championships 2000 the Netherlands and their football fans turn completely orange. The Dutch national colour. The program Europamagazin from the German public broadcaster ARD produce a reportage about the orange mania. The owner of an orange café and his orange customers… Read More

After 58 Chinese are found dead in a horror truck in Dover, England, it came out that the Chinese were smuggled via The Netherlands. The program Tagesthemen from the German public broadcaster ARD reports about the disaster and need the latest information from the Netherlands…. Read More

BBC Panorama follows some of the most notorious British hooligans during their stay in Europe for the Euro football championships. Both in the Netherlands and in Belgium the English hard core football fans behave extremely aggressive and some of them turn out to be linked… Read More

In the nursing home for people suffering from dementia Hogeweyk in the Dutch town Weesp, the inhabitants stay as independent as possible. They are treated as individuals that should have fun in the last phase of their life. Nothing in Hogeweyk is like life in… Read More

The Libyan suspects of the terrorist bomb attack against an American Pan Am Flight 103 causing a huge plane crash in the Scottish village Lockerbie, are adjudged in a special court governed by Scots law in The Netherlands. After the sudden departure of Lord Hardie… Read More

When Erna and Henk found out that they had bought a fake painting of Matisse in a well-respected gallery in Amsterdam, they decided they might as well start focusing on collecting fake paintings. In the former city hall of the village Fledder, Erna and Henk… Read More

The Enschede fireworks disaster took place on Saturday 13 May 2000 in the Dutch city of Enschede. A warehouse containing fireworks from the company S.E. Fireworks caught fire and eventually exploded. There were 23 deaths, including four firefighters, about 950 people were injured and 200… Read More

During the preparation of EURO 2000, the European Football Championships in The Netherlands and Belgium, safety plays a big role. There is fear of the activities of the different hard core hooligan groups, especially in combination with the liberal Dutch culture, were soft and hard… Read More