After winning from Brazil the Dutch football team will play Uruguay in the semi-final of the world cup football. On the day of the semi-final the background program ’10 vor 10’ from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen sends their Europe correspondent to Amsterdam… Read More

The Japanese Europe correspondent Susumu Kojima from the public TV channel NHK travels to the Netherlands to cover the world cup football match between the Netherlands and Japan. First he visits Venlo, a town in the south of the country were the Japanese key footballer… Read More

On the day of the Dutch National elections Swiss EU correspondent Christoph Nufer is in The Hague cover the voting, to give live comments on the expectations and to analyse the first results after the exit polls for broadcasts of the news program Tagesschau. For… Read More

Since the expected budget cuts is the main issue in the Dutch national elections, the Europe correspondent from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to see how the Dutch copes with the economic crisis. Innovation and durability seems to be… Read More

After it turns out that the Dutch national elections will be a fight between the liberal party VVD and the social democrat party PvdA, the Swiss news program Tagesschau covers ‘Het Lagerhuis’ (House of Commons) a very popular life Dutch debate program where a mix… Read More

Political journalist Ingrid Steiner from the Austrian newspaper Kurier travels to the Netherlands for an article about the upcoming Dutch national elections and especially on the popularity of the Party of Freedom (PVV) from Geert Wilders. Ingrid Steiner interviews the Dutch political scientist and writer… Read More

El Asira, the first Muslim company that sells erotic products via internet, is based in the Netherlands. A reporter from the Austrian public TV background program ORF Weltjournal is send to the Netherlands to cover the story. He interviews the owner of the company, an… Read More

More and more Swiss farmers stop farming. Only last year 860 Swiss farmers stopped farming. Since the Swiss are planning to liberalise trade in the agricultural branch farmers are afraid for the European competition. Swiss public TV Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer visits to the Netherlands… Read More

For Greenpeace Switzerland the Dutch economic research bureau Profundo did research after the way tar sand companies are financed by the Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse. Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands… Read More

For a background reportage about the innovative Dutch food branch Japanese public TV channel NHK sends journalist Ryusuke Kimura to the Netherlands. He reports about the modern and durable Dutch greenhouse sector, visits the Restaurant of the Future at the Agricultural University Wageningen in the… Read More

In the Netherlands unemployment is relatively low compared to the rest of Europe. In Rotterdam politicians even claim to end employment by forcing people to take a job or do a course. In Switzerland there are also plans to force young people to work. For… Read More

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Cameroon NHK Sports journalists Yuki Ohba produces a series of portraits of the teams that the national football team of Japan will face in the first round of the World Cup in South Africa. The NHK crew films at… Read More