The United kingdom wants to reform its public health system. for a news reportage for  BBC News correspondent Neill Dickson visit The Netherlands to find out how the Dutch organise health care. He interviews an English family doctor living and working in the Netherlands and… Read More

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb… Read More

The war crimes trial of the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević has a restart and the Austrian public TV channel ORF needs a camera crew and equipment for a quick news stand-up in front of the International Criminal Tribunal for… Read More

For some time the German economy is not doing so well. The German government wants to stimulate people with social security to take simple low paid part time jobs by giving them serious tax benefits. Through this measure the German authorities expect to create hundred… Read More

After the September 11 in New York attacks senior reporter Alexander Steinbach travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage for the background program Weltjournal about the threat of terror in Europe and in the Netherlands, and about the existence of sleeping terror cells…. Read More

In The Netherlands not only the authorities organise naturalisation courses for migrants. In the age of privatisation now also companies give the Dutch culture and language course, often in combination with a job. All the migrant newcomers doing the course get a native employee as… Read More

On the 19th of January 2000 the Dutch brothel ban was abolished, making the Dutch prostitution branch completely legal. The explanatory memorandum to the law lists several reasons: protection of the position of prostitutes; combating the exploitation of involuntary prostitution; controlling and regulating the exploitation… Read More

On 12 April 2001, the Dutch Euthanasia Act, fully named the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act, was passed by a parliamentary majority in the Lower House. The law applies to life termination on request (also called euthanasia) and assisted suicide, both… Read More

After England, France and The Netherlands, Germany is the fourth country in Europe that is struck by the devastating foot & mouth disease. The Dutch Agriculture Minister declared strict measures to prevent the highly contagious livestock virus foot-and-mouth disease from spreading around the Netherlands and… Read More

In January 2001, the Serbian authorities placed Slobodan Milošević under round-the-clock police surveillance in Belgrade, and began investigating allegations that he had misused state funds and abused his office. When it comes out that Milošević is put in a Serbian prison and that he is… Read More

After it becomes clear that the Dutch heir of the throne prince Willem Alexander is engaged to the Argentinian blonde Maxima Zorreguieta, it also came out that her father Jorge Zorreguieta has been an important Minister during the dictatorship of the Jorge Rafael Videla regime…. Read More

On the 1st of October 2000 the Dutch Brothel ban was lifted. Dutch brothels became legal business and prostitutes entrepreneurs. The big question is: does it work? Reporter Angelica Fell from the German second broadcaster ZDF program Mona Lisa travels to the Netherlands for the… Read More