On April 30, 2013 the whole world can follow the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the investiture of King Willem Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima. The city of Amsterdam is full of people dressed in orange because on the 30iest of April the Dutch… Read More

On April 30, 2013, the very last Queens Day will take place in the Netherlands. Next year the national celebration day will take place three days earlier, on the birthday of Willem Alexander and it will be called Kings day. Foregoing the coronation, SRF journalist… Read More

For the Swiss public TV background reportage program SRF ’10 vor 10′ Europe correspondent Jonas Projer wants to check out how popular the monarchy is in the Netherlands and what future it has. For this reportage he also researches the fortune of the Queen and… Read More

The Euronews TV program Reporter produces a series of reportages about youth unemployment in Europe. While youth unemployment rates in Greece and Spain around 60 percent, the figure in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands is below ten percent. How do the Dutch combat youth unemployment?… Read More

The Dutch start the transport of Patriot missiles systems to Turkey for the NATO protection of the cities close to the border of Syria. The Turkish government asked for extra NATO protection because over the last months some missiles have landed in Turkey causing damage… Read More

France’s minister for women is to organise a consultation on ways to abolish prostitution in France and in Europe, she has told the Guardian. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the high profile women’s rights minister and government spokeswoman, said in an interview that she would be organising a… Read More

On the 12th of September, the day of the Dutch national elections, Austrians public TV Europe correspondent Ernst Kernmeyer covers the vote and the outcome itself. Since the Dutch vote with the red pencil, it takes till 3 o’clock at night before it is definite… Read More

The new Dutch austerity measures also include serious spending cuts in the youth care branch. In Rotterdam the company Sagenn lost all its subsidies, and according to the personnel it is not if, but when things will go horribly wrong with some of the youngsters… Read More

On the last weekend before the Dutch national elections the party leaders hit the streets again to campaign, meet the Dutch voters and to show give interviews to national and international media. The leader of the social democrat party PvdA Diederik Samsom visits Utrecht. During… Read More

At the shipyard of the Dutch steel construction company Hollandia an enormous platform needs to be assembled for the Energy company Vattenfall. The platform needs to hold the transformers for yet another off shore wind park. For the last phase of the process the base… Read More

A month before the Dutch national elections the parties are kicking off their campaigns. The Socialist Party gathers in the Open-air Museum in Arnhem. On an extremely hot Sunday party leader Roemer gives his campaign speech. The party is the runner up in the polls,… Read More

While the results of the European nuclear stress test are discussed in Brussels, NHK Europe correspondent Takashi Ichinose visits the one and only Dutch nuclear power plant in Borssele in the South East of the Netherlands. The managing director of the nuclear power plant gives… Read More