Suddenly it becomes clear that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will resign in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander this year. In a prerecorded address broadcast on TV, she said she will formally stand down on 30 April this year. The Queen, who is approaching… Read More

In the Netherlands there are insect farms where grasshoppers, crickets and all kinds of worms are produced. According to Arnold van Huis, a professor at the laboratory of entomology at the Wageningen University, the world population is expected to hit 9 billion by 2050, and… Read More

In Germany a congress is organised about the security in hospitals against resistant bacteria and viruses. The German public TV reportage program Tagesthemen wants to find out how the Dutch are protecting patients and hospital personnel against antibiotics resistant bacteria. It turns out that washing… Read More

An organ transplant scandal, involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs, has shocked Germany. The German public TV program ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs…. Read More

Canadian documentary maker Sheona McDonald from Dimestore Productions got a commission to make a pilot for a documentary about Woman and porn. Over the last years woman became much more active in the porn industry. As producers and as end users. After the sudden success… Read More

A European directive, officially entitled ‘on the right of information in criminal proceedings’, was adopted by the Council last in April, after the European Parliament approved it last December. It will enter into force upon publication, but will give European member States a two-year period… Read More

The economic and financial crisis has overthrown governments all-over Europe. In the Netherlands, the political parties have clashed over austerity measures. And while the outgoing government increases the retirement age and VAT, the Dutch are becoming ever more disillusioned. The TV-program Euronews Reporter sends reporter… Read More

During the French presidential elections Euronews broadcasts a special elections program. Ome of the main issues is the renewed popularity of the extreme right party Front National. A background reportage looks at the reasons behind the increase of populism in France and Europe. Why became… Read More

Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch company producing premium chocolate bars made form delectable Belgian chocolate. Tony’s Chocolonely goes steps beyond Fair Trade in their chocolate-making, industry-changing, slavery-free chocolate mission. Because the child slavery in the coca branch is discussed in the European Parliament, the German… Read More

The Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam has been in the news since June last year after the outbreak of an antibiotic bacterium named Klebsiella Oxa-48 that has likely caused the death of 78 people. Question arises on how this new bacterium could appear in the Netherlands…. Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about researchers creating a more contagious and fatal form of the H5N1 bird flu. Researchers in the Netherlands have manipulated the virus to make it more transmissible among humans, and it could potentially kill millions… Read More

While in Switzerland the reception of asylum seekers is organised in a very decentralised and bureaucratic way, the Netherlands totally revised its asylum seekers system over the years. Procedures are as short as possible and the asylum seekers are housed in central reception centres. The… Read More