Anticipating on the future banning of the Dutch anti-brothel law in Holland, the Amsterdam council starts a semi-licensing system for the exploiters of prostitution-companies. Juridically this is impossible because the exploitation of a brothel is illegal, but the Dutch steer the well-known ‘pragmatical middle course’… Read More
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The German weekly Der Spiegel reports that personnel from the Royal Dutch Aircraft Factory Fokker’ will be fired. The magazine predicts bankruptcy before 1996. The German group DASA is said to have bought ‘a cat in the bag’ with Fokker. DASA is to carry out… Read More
Reportage on German, Belgium and French drug tourism in Maastricht . A journey from coffeeshop to coffeeshop and the views of Maastricht the police, to politicians and specialists. How many foreigners visit the border city Maastricht to buy drugs? What do they think of the… Read More
Thirty minute documentary about the annoyance caused by hard drug users in the Dutch city Arnhem. Marcel is an addict trying to survive. Since he thinks it is not right to steal, he sells small quantities of heroine to pay for his own use. Henk… Read More
Reportage on soft drug tourism in the Netherlands for the ARD background reportage program Weltspiegel. Many Germans visit border cities like Venlo and Arnhem to buy soft drugs. How does this work in practice and how do these cities cope with this phenomenon. Interviews with… Read More
In the Netherlands euthanasia is tolerated. The Dutch are preparing a euthanasia-law. How is euthanasia carried out in the Netherlands? A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the Dutch daily practice interviewing specialists, doctors, patients, the Minister of Justice and and both… Read More
A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the Dutch bulb- and flower-industry. Cultivation of bulbs in the countryside, research in the bulb-lab and the auction of millions of flowers and plants in the worlds largest commercial building. Activities: research, set-up & planning… Read More
A Scottish BBC reportage about a Scottish police officer that visits Amsterdam to check out the Dutch liberal soft drugs policy and system. The police officer meets a Dutch colleague, an owner of a coffeeshop and members of the ‘Union for Cannabis Retailers’. Activities: research,… Read More
German Hardliners against Dutch liberal specialist: a live discussion in Amsterdam about the Dutch liberal drug policy in an European context for the WDR talk show program 1000 Herz. A German Christian democrat and a concerned mother traveled to Amsterdam to join a discussion with… Read More
A background reportage, for the program Tagesthemen from the first German public TV channel ARD, about the rise of the illegal indoor cultivation of Skunk, Dutch marijuana. Portraits of private and commercial growers. Filming in a grow shop that sells everything that is needed to… Read More