An epic landscape experiment is underway in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make the Netherlands, the most developed country of all European states, wild again. Its method is to establish a vast network of natural habitats and wildlife corridors. Frans Vera, one of the… Read More

After the implementation of the new Dutch naturalisation law around 250 thousand migrants, who often already live in The Netherlands for years, are obliged to do a naturalisation course, including an exam. The costs for the course and the exams have to be partly paid… Read More

The German chemical company Bayer is laying a pipe line for CO2 in Germany. CO2 (carbon dioxide ) is used for the fabrication of plastics and it is highly toxic. Often the Bayer pipeline CO2 only passes by at a few meters of houses. So… 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

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 for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the problems long term asylum seekers face in the Netherlands. Caused by the very strict Dutch immigration legislation, many asylum seekers that are already waiting for a residence permit for more than five years are… 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

Since the Dutch have a special and innovative way to handle their fishing quota, a crew from the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa travels to the Netherlands to investigate how the system works and how it differs from the UK and from the rest of Europe…. 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

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

Teachers of a Berlin school with a large percentage of pupils of migrant descent, searched for publicity to express their cry of distress about the tense working conditions. The pupils are very violent, come to school when they want and there is loads of vandalism…. Read More

That lesson, about the Netherlands’ nude beaches, is followed by another: homosexuals have the same rights here as heterosexuals do, including the chance to marry.  Just to make sure everyone gets the message, two men are shown kissing in a meadow. The scenes are brief… Read More