Although homosexuality is very accepted in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam is often seen as the gay capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in Dutch old people’s homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. The L.A. Rieshuis in Amsterdam… Read More

In Switzerland parents receive a letter that tells them where their child will go to school. In the Netherlands parents are free to decide to which school their child will go to. Sometimes this leads to Dutch schools with a majority of native or migrant… Read More

The European market leader in navigation systems TomTom introduces a new traffic information system in Switzerland called HD traffic. TomTom already introduced the service a year before in the Netherlands. By using different traffic data streams and a signals of mobile phones of motorists the… Read More

The Netherlands District Court in The Hague will deliver its verdict on whether the Dutch state and its contingent of United Nations peace-keeping troops can be held responsible for handing over Bosnian refugees that looked for protection against Serb soldiers. In July 1995 Bosnians who… Read More

Since the first of July smoking in cafes, restaurants and night clubs is banned in the Netherlands. Tobacco smoking is also forbidden in the famous Dutch coffee shops, while the tolerated cannabis and hash can be smoked pure without a problem. But in the Netherlands… Read More

The Dutch football fans left an overwhelming impression in Bern during the European Football championships. After the orange invasion the news program from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen want to make a report about the Dutch football supporter culture. In a street in… Read More

They have taken over the world. We love them, but now that we have so many of them, they are destroying our cities and our lives. Cars and gridlock. This documentary weaves through the choked cities of North America and Europe seeking solutions to the… Read More

Ten members of the group Mothers of Srebrenica ask a civilian court in The Hague to waive the UN’s immunity from prosecution. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths… Read More

Most of the chicken cages from Kofi, a chicken farmer in Ghana, are empty. Around 90% of the chicken farmers in Ghana already went bankrupt because they cannot sell chicken meat anymore. According to traders it is too expensive. This is because chicken meat from… Read More

On Mother’s day the Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to produce a background reportage for the TV program ’10 vor 0’ about the Dutch flower branch. During the extensive coverage at one the enormous… Read More

Fitna, the controversial anti-Koran short film by anti-immigration Dutch MP Geert Wilders was finally released on the internet on Thursday evening the 27th of March. Most of the Dutch and foreign media report that the film is milder than expected and lacks surprises. No problems… Read More

Aquapol is an European partnership of ten countries for police work at inland waterways, on the seas and in seaports, aimed at advancing safety and fighting crime in Europe. In 2008 Aquapol’s presidency was given to the Netherlands. One of the areas of attention for… Read More