Suddenly it turns out that the kings’ song that is written and performed by various Dutch artists get loads of critics. Tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands have objected to an official King’s Song marking the 30 April investiture of Willem-Alexander. The writer… Read More

The German public broadcaster ARD wants actual video footage of the Dutch Queen Beatrix. One of the last official activities of the queen, before her abdication, is visiting the European School in Bergen to celebrate the 50 years anniversary of the international school. A very… Read More

The EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, has been asked to assist in the investigations into the Europe-wide horse meat scandal. The investigations started after beef lasagna products, which are made by a French company, were found to contain up to 100% horse meat. The alarm… Read More

A Dutch court has rejected four out of five allegations against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. But it found a subsidiary of the firm, Shell Nigeria, responsible for one case of pollution, ordering it to pay compensation to… Read More

Suddenly it becomes clear that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will resign in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander this year. In a prerecorded address broadcast on TV, she said she will formally stand down on 30 April this year. The Queen, who is approaching… Read More

In the Netherlands there are insect farms where grasshoppers, crickets and all kinds of worms are produced. According to Arnold van Huis, a professor at the laboratory of entomology at the Wageningen University, the world population is expected to hit 9 billion by 2050, and… Read More

Steve Jobs‘ yacht was unveiled in a Dutch shipyard, where the unusual boat designed by Jobs and famed minimalist designer Philippe Starck, was christened “Venus,” after the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. The finished ship was launched at shipbuilder Koninklijke… Read More

In Germany a congress is organised about the security in hospitals against resistant bacteria and viruses. The German public TV reportage program Tagesthemen wants to find out how the Dutch are protecting patients and hospital personnel against antibiotics resistant bacteria. It turns out that washing… Read More

France’s minister for women is to organise a consultation on ways to abolish prostitution in France and in Europe, she has told the Guardian. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the high profile women’s rights minister and government spokeswoman, said in an interview that she would be organising a… Read More

The new Dutch austerity measures also include serious spending cuts in the youth care branch. In Rotterdam the company Sagenn lost all its subsidies, and according to the personnel it is not if, but when things will go horribly wrong with some of the youngsters… Read More

At the shipyard of the Dutch steel construction company Hollandia an enormous platform needs to be assembled for the Energy company Vattenfall. The platform needs to hold the transformers for yet another off shore wind park. For the last phase of the process the base… Read More

An organ transplant scandal, involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs, has shocked Germany. The German public TV program ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs…. Read More