Although selling cannabis has been tolerated in the Netherlands for decades, growing cannabis is still illegal. Soon, this might change because the government is experimenting with legal cannabis production. In 2019, the Dutch government launched a cannabis experiment in which entrepreneurs can start growing cannabis… Read More

Because of the swing to the right in the last Dutch national elections, NHK Europe correspondent Yasuko Takeda covers the European elections in the Netherlands. The reportage zooms in on the rise of the Freedom Party from Geert Wilders that won the elections and that… Read More

Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam firebrand and the leader of the Dutch People’s Party for Freedom (PVV) came first in last November’s parliamentary elections with 23 per cent of the votes. The champion of national preference gained unprecedented support in a climate of deep economic and… Read More

The famous British TV cook and  cookery book writer Nigella Lawson returns for a very special Christmas treat when she travels to Amsterdam to enjoy the festive season in the Venice of the North. With family ties to Amsterdam that go back generations, Nigella has fond… Read More

Preceding the Dutch Lower House elections, the war between Hamas and Israel is slowly starting to play more of a role in the campaign. A Dutch political reporter: “It is inevitable that parties will pay attention to it in the campaign; the conflict dominates the… Read More

The French documentary production company Les Bons Clients is organising worldwide filming for the major documentary film ‘France, il était une fois demain’ (A journey through our future) for the channel France 2 from the public TV channel France Télévisions. The end result will be a… Read More

The Dutch maintained their position as one of the world’s happiest countries in annual United Nations survey in 2023. The report, which is published annually by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, ranks countries based on factors such as GDP per capita, social support,… Read More

The Dutch is Cabinet working on regulation of life termination for children up to 12 years of age who are suffering unbearably and hopelessly. The current Dutch Late Termination of Pregnancy and Life Termination of Newborns regulation will be amended and expanded to include life… Read More

The Dutch cabinet is pushing forward with a new regulation to enable euthanasia for terminally ill children aged 1-12 who experience unbearable and hopeless suffering. Health Minister Ernst Kuipers announced in a press release that he expects the regulation to be implemented within the year…. Read More

For a Nippon TV entertainment program a presenter comes to Amsterdam to fish in the canals with magnets. Magnet fishing is a known hobby in the Netherlands. Since the country has loads of canals, rivers, ditches and lakes, a lot metal objects end up in… Read More

For an episode of the Euronews program ‘Witness’, journalist Hans von der Brelie travels to the Netherlands where many farmers are opposing government plans to drastically reduce livestock in order to slash nitrogen emissions, a major source of pollution in the country. He visits and… Read More

The Netherlands are Europe’s main producer of synthetic drugs. All the Ecstasy, the MDMA, the Amphetamines and met-amphetamines are mostly synthesized in Brabant, a southern region of the Netherlands, generating high profits after the substances are exported worldwide. Worse of all, the synthetic drugs production… Read More