Europol give a press conference in The Hague to announce the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender’s network. The case, named ‘Operation Koala’, began in 2006 when a child abuse video was discovered in Australia. This particular video had been produced in Belgium. A… Read More

Just before the new EU treaty is signed, the Japanese NHK correspondent checks out why the Dutch government decided to skip a second referendum on the treaty. The Dutch opposition is busy to organise support for a new referendum, while the Minister of European Affairs… Read More

The ‘Betuwe Line’, the new cargo railway line from the harbour of Rotterdam to Germany, is opened by the Queen Beatrix on the 16th of June 2007. Different transporters have requested to use the new track. Around ten years ago the Dutch government decided to… Read More

The Dutch public TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Dutch political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN… Read More

The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries called e² design. e² design broadcasted on the American public TV channel PBS. The Economies of Being Environmentally conscious is an original HD multipart series that explores the living vitality of the… Read More

A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera’s equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive. The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear… Read More

A background reportage preceding the local elections in Antwerp, Belgium. After the second biggest party of Belgium, the extreme right party Vlaams Belang (VB), does not get any political influence from other parties, executing the famous ‘cordon sanitaire’, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the Austrian… Read More

In the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Port Services attempted to unload a suspicious load of the oil tanker Probo Koala, but they discovered the cargo was much more toxic than the Dutch company Trafigura leasing the boat, had declared at beforehand. When the costs for safely… Read More

After the Party for Neighbourly love, Freedom and Diversity (PNVD) got permission from the Dutch elections commission to be established, it won a court case trying to prohibit the controversial political party. The three main founders of the PNVD, better known as the ‘paedophile party’,… Read More

For the program ‘Europamagazin’ from the first public TV broadcaster ARD, SWR journalist Alexander Stenzel travels to Rotterdam to make a reportage about the so called Rotterdam Law. The Special Measures Metropolitan Problems Act of 22 December 2005 is a Dutch law to regulate the… Read More

After the Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic died in the UN-jail in The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia loses its main suspect on trial. The world media gathers for days at the tribunal and rumours pop up that Milosevic was poisoned. For… Read More

The Antilles islands are the last Dutch colonial heritage and located in the Caribbean. In the colonial times the islands where used to sell and transit slaves and in present time the islands are popular tourist destination, but are also used to smuggle cocaine to… Read More