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

The Scottish BBC program Eòrpa has been filming in Romania to cover the problems the country has to enter the Schengen treaty, making free transport of persons and goods possible. There were notable objections from the Dutch and Finnish foreign ministers. For this background reportage… Read More

All parliaments of the EU member states have to officially agree to the new European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Just after the Dutch parliament okayed the EFSF, the Europe correspondent of the Japanese public TV channel NHK wants the reaction of the Dutch minister of… Read More

As a measure to fight soft drugs tourism the Dutch government presented a series of proposals aimed at transforming coffeeshops into closed clubs. These clubs should have a maximum amount of members, all of whom have to reside in the Netherlands. To get entrance the… Read More

On the day of the verdict in the former Croatian general Ante Gotovina trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, the Swiss public broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen needs an interview with the former Swiss public prosecutor Stefan Waespi for a… Read More

Because of huge problems with rioting football supporters in Switzerland, resulting in serious vandalism in trains, a team from the Swiss Federal Railways visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch transport supporters by train. For many years the Dutch have the so-called ‘Combi-arrangement’. In… Read More

In two days both princess Maxima and Queen Beatrix open and visit two exhibitions in the Netherlands. Princess Maxima opens ‘The treasures from the forbidden city’, an exhibition of 18th century musical clocks, of which many have been restored by restorers from the Dutch Musical… Read More

The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor summons successful populist Dutch politician Geert Wilders for offending a group of people and inciting to discrimination and hatred. In June 2008, the Public Prosecutor decided that statements from Wilders were not liable to punishment and dropped the case. Those who… Read More

Since every ten minutes a bicycle is stolen in Switzerland, the authorities decided to find a way to fight the theft. A possibility is to start the registration of bikes, just like cars. In the year 2000, the ATC, the Anti-Theft Chip, was introduced in… Read More

Two United States residents of Yemeni descent flying from Chicago to Amsterdam are detained by the Dutch police after landing on Schiphol Airport. The news program from the American TV channel ABC to know all details about the arrest, where the detainees are locked up,… Read More

NHK news wants to know what the Dutch think about the upcoming world cup quarter final match between the Netherlands and Brazil for the world cup football in South Africa. Filming Amsterdam in orange, interviews with fans in a Dutch team fan shop and in… Read More

The Swiss minister of Transport Moritz Leuenberger attends ‘From corridors to network’, a conference for ministers from the European Union on so-called rail freight corridors in Rotterdam. The news program Tagesschau form the public Swiss TV reports on the Signing of a Ministerial declaration, and… Read More