To cover the Dutch local elections Europe correspondent Christof Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau. Christof attends a political radio debate in the Hague and interviews a local politician from… Read More

The collapse of the Dutch government has presented the Dutch electorate with a problem to which no easy solution seems obvious. The government has split over the question of troops in Afghanistan, but this can be seen as merely the explosive element that has blown… Read More

After the Swiss decided for a minaret ban by referendum, the Swiss TV-program ’10 vor 10′ wants to have a closer look at anti-Islam legislation in the rest of Europe. Besides France now also Belgium has decided to ban head-scarfs on schools. In Antwerp the… Read More

A drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure may help people erase bad memories and even treat phobias, a team of Dutch scientists say. Lead researcher Dr Merel Kindt, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, says the generic drug propranolol, a beta-blocker, significantly… Read More

The Smith and Jones clinic in Amsterdam treats gaming addicts from all over the world. The gaming addicts get the therapy partly together with drug addicts. The director of the clinic fears that gaming addiction will become the largest addiction in the world. The program… Read More

A right wing party has officially requested a referendum to see if a majority of the Swiss are in favour of a new law to ban minarets. Since the Netherlands is known to house a large number of mosques of which some have minarets, the… Read More

In 2000 the Dutch city of Utrecht started with a new approach to deal with large number of homeless people and the problems it causes. The Utrecht city hall stimulated cooperation between all the different departments and organisations that are involved in helping and handling… Read More

Because of huge overpopulation and the rise of the number of suicides in French jails, a TV crew from TF1 news travels to the Netherlands and to Belgium to check out the jail systems in these two European states and how they work in practice…. Read More

For the summer season Swiss reportage program ’10 vor 10′ asks Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer to make a portrait of Oswalt Kolle. The German sex educator, who became famous in the 1960s for his books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into… Read More

After it becomes clear that Switzerland has to reorganise its health care system because the system does not have the incentives to save money, reporter Reto Gerber from the economic program Eco from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen, travels to the Netherlands to… Read More

There is a bicycle revolution going on. Cities in North America have suddenly begun to provide cyclists with facilities (bike lanes, secure lock-ups, etc.) and are looking at Public Bike systems for their citizens. The Canadian documentary production company Cogent Benger Productions Inc. produces a… Read More

Preceding the European elections the first German public TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighbouring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The evening program Tagesthemen broadcasts live from the centre of Amsterdam. Dutch historian, writer and documentary… Read More