Since November 2007 it is known that the far right wing politician Geert Wilders has a plan for an anti-Koran film. The film with the name Fitna will probably be launched on the internet before the first of April 2008. The Freedom Party (PVV) leader… Read More

After the local elections in 2006 Ahmed Marcouch became the first Muslim mayor of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart. The Social Democrat is a man of action, resolutely pushing through tough measures – something that doesn’t always win him friends. Most of Slotervaart’s 45,000 inhabitants have… Read More

During the opening of the new exhibition ‘Amsterdam and the House of Orange’ at the Amsterdam Historical Museum, Queen Beatrix saw her life reflected. Although most of the exhibit shows the centuries of often testy relations between Amsterdam and the princely, later royal family, there… Read More

ABC reporter Chris Cuomo and two colleagues on the island Aruba reconstruct the last hours of Natallee Holloway, the American girl that disappeared on Aruba in 2005, using the secretly taped admissions from the main Dutch suspect Joran van der S. in a Dutch crime… Read More

In the Dutch year of the religious heritage, a new foundation devoted itself to save churches from demolition. In the upcoming 5 years around 1200 Dutch churches will go out of use because of the secularisation. Many of these churches have to be demolished to… Read More

The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries with the title e² design. The series covers eight different topics – from sustainable architecture to water culture to alternative energy to organic farming, recycled clothing and more – are each presented… Read More

In Austria the legalisation of gay marriage is discussed. Europe correspondent Sonja Sagmeister from the Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch gay marriage is doing. She finds out that Dutch married gays even can adopt children. Sonja Sagmeister… Read More

Just before the new EU treaty is signed, the Japanese NHK correspondent checks out why the Dutch government decided to skip a second referendum on the treaty. The Dutch opposition is busy to organise support for a new referendum, while the Minister of European Affairs… Read More

Because an asylum seeker girl in Austria threatens to kill herself, after her family is send back to Kosovo, ORF correspondent Sonja Sagmeister reports on the actual situation in The Netherlands, where a general amnesty for asylum seekers is given. An Angolan couple with a… Read More

It seems to be a trend, the establishments of ex-Muslim committees in Europe. With the German and English founders of these kinds of committees, the Dutch student Ashan Jami erects a Dutch committee of ex-Muslims in The Hague. For the reportage about ex-Muslim committees for… Read More

Over the last years the cultivation of fish on land is seriously increasing. One of the most striking Dutch companies that breeds fish on land is ‘Happy Shrimps’. It cultivates large exotic shrimps in the Rotterdam harbour by using the surplus heat of a power… Read More

An epic landscape experiment is underway in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make the Netherlands, the most developed country of all European states, wild again. Its method is to establish a vast network of natural habitats and wildlife corridors. Frans Vera, one of the… Read More