This week, two the suspected gunman and the getaway driver involved in last year’s murder of the best-known Dutch investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries were arrested. Next week the verdict against the actual “hit squad” is to be pronounced. The ARD program Europamagazin summarises… Read More

The Marengo trial, also known as the Marengo case (Dutch: Marengo-proces), is a legal proceeding involving alleged high-ranking members of the Mocro Maffia, a Dutch-Moroccan criminal organisation. The trial centers on seventeen defendants accused of participating in numerous murders and attempted murders. The Marengo trial… Read More

The Scottish BBC Gaelic program Eorpa produces an extensive report on Brexit and what the effects of any Brexit deal will have on Scotland and on the countries in the EU that trade a lot with the UK, such as the Netherlands. An Eorpa crew… Read More

Serres Séparées is a Covid-19-inspired extension of the Amsterdam art centre Mediamatic’s restaurant. Waterfront greenhouses have been transformed into private dining rooms. The name was inspired by the French chambre séparée; a room in a bar or restaurant that suggests a sexy form of intimacy…. Read More

For a second documentary about the corona virus the Japanese public channel NHK wants to give more attention to the Dutch 100 families research and to the fact that in the Netherlands youth can restart sport training again. A father and a son explain how… Read More

The Japanese public channel NHK is producing a documentary about the way the corona virus and corona crisis is handled worldwide. In the Netherlands they want to know why the Dutch choose for an intelligent lockdown and what research is done at 100 Dutch families… Read More

A court ruling has forced the Netherlands to promptly deal with its high nitrogen emissions. The Dutch government has decided to cut speed limits on high ways and farmers have rallied in the streets to protest against the plan to reduce livestock numbers. Most of… Read More

Scottish ministers have been urged to heavily increase funding for hard drugs addicts after Scotland recorded the highest level of drugs deaths in Europe last year. The latest figures showed a record number of 934 people died in Scotland as a direct result of drug… Read More

A shooting game based on humanistic principles: developed with the help of the International Red Cross. The player must distinguish in the crosshairs between fighters and civilians. Anyone shooting at city dwellers or prisoners of war will be punished digitally. The game is developed by… Read More

Nowhere the Dutch local elections are as exciting as in Rotterdam. The late Pim fortuyn party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Livable Rotterdam) is fighting for the vote on the right side with both the PVV from Geert Wilders as the Forum for Democracy from the new populist… Read More

The city of Amsterdam is leading the world in ending the obesity epidemic, thanks to a radical and wide-reaching program which is getting results even among the poorest communities that are hardest to reach. The program appears to be succeeding by hitting multiple targets at… 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