A Dutch supermarket chain has launched ‘the world’s first plastic free supermarket’ and the Plastic Whale offers boat tours to fish plastic out of the Amsterdam channels. Ekoplaza, a Dutch organic supermarket chain, opened its ‘Ekoplaza Lab’ just off a major shopping street in the… Read More

Buurtzorg (Neighbourhood care) is a Dutch pioneering healthcare organisation established 10 years ago with a nurse-led model of holistic care that revolutionised community care in the Netherlands. Client satisfaction rates are the highest of any health care organisation, staff commitment and contentedness is reflected in… Read More

BBC presenter Brandon Holland suffers from gigantism, a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average, and he wants to find out more about it. On the west coast of Ireland a skeleton is found of a giant and genetic research will show… Read More

In 2000 the Dutch prostitution branch became fully legal after the brothel ban was lifted. What is the status of the Dutch sex branch that has been fully legalized for almost 20 years and more importantly how is it for a sex worker to run… Read More

The French government will unveil the paths of its justice reform with five major projects. One of them focuses on the effectiveness of the jail sentence. There are alternatives to prison, such as community service. France 2 plans a special broadcast about the French jail… Read More

The Swiss parliament will discuss new legislation to make more use of DNA traces in criminal cases. The Netherlands already has less strict rules for the use of DNA material and for DNA research amongst the population. The rape and murder of the Dutch girl… Read More

A gas extraction company and the Dutch government catch sight of the UN human rights commission. It demands measures from the Dutch state to protect the inhabitants of the Northern province Groningen from increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by the intensive extraction of gas. The Dutch… Read More

The youth program ARTE Junior broadcast They’re your age 3 minute portraits of children all around the world. How do other children around the world live? What is their breakfast like and what is their favourite food? Where do they go to school? What do… Read More

For years the Dutch government has been decreasing the budget for the army. Over the last weeks more and more critics and complaints are passed on to the ministry of defence that there is not enough money anymore to perform the basic military tasks. There… Read More

Every year thousands of Dutch tourists visit Switzerland for skiing vacation. But how to learn and prepare for skiing down the Alps in a country without mountains? The solution is indoor skiing ramps, where the Dutch can prepare for the winter sport vacation. Because of… Read More

The drama series ‘If the dykes break’ tells about a contemporary flood in the Netherlands and parts of Flanders. What will be left of the Netherlands if a serious flood will unfold? The drama series has been broadcasted in the Netherlands and in Flanders. ARTE… Read More

The Dutch government decided there will be a new investigation into the violence in Indonesia in the late forties of the last century. Recently it became clear that Dutch soldiers used ‘structural violence’. Not only the actions of the Dutch will be examined, but the… Read More