Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch company producing premium chocolate bars made form delectable Belgian chocolate. Tony’s Chocolonely goes steps beyond Fair Trade in their chocolate-making, industry-changing, slavery-free chocolate mission. Because the child slavery in the coca branch is discussed in the European Parliament, the German… Read More

As it is widely known for many years the Netherlands had a policy of tolerance towards soft drug use. This is not a laissez-faire policy, however, since the sales of cannabis and hashish to the public in so called coffeeshops is strictly regulated. A common… Read More

In the Netherlands a majority of the MPs is supporting a law proposal to ban Kosher and Halal slaughter methods. The Dutch Senate needs to votes on this law proposal from the unique Dutch Party for the Animals. Just before the vote a crew from… Read More

While in Switzerland the reception of asylum seekers is organised in a very decentralised and bureaucratic way, the Netherlands totally revised its asylum seekers system over the years. Procedures are as short as possible and the asylum seekers are housed in central reception centres. The… Read More

The Scottish BBC program Eòrpa has been filming in Romania to cover the problems the country has to enter the Schengen treaty, making free transport of persons and goods possible. There were notable objections from the Dutch and Finnish foreign ministers. For this background reportage… Read More

All parliaments of the EU member states have to officially agree to the new European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Just after the Dutch parliament okayed the EFSF, the Europe correspondent of the Japanese public TV channel NHK wants the reaction of the Dutch minister of… Read More

As a measure to fight soft drugs tourism the Dutch government presented a series of proposals aimed at transforming coffeeshops into closed clubs. These clubs should have a maximum amount of members, all of whom have to reside in the Netherlands. To get entrance the… Read More

On the day of the verdict in the former Croatian general Ante Gotovina trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, the Swiss public broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen needs an interview with the former Swiss public prosecutor Stefan Waespi for a… Read More

The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home. The Dutch government would pay travelling expenses to returnees of up to 1,500 euros and life benefits to persons… Read More

Many concerns have been raised in Europe about the high quantity of Ritalin use in Europe. Ritalin is a medicines that is prescribed for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) . In the Netherlands ten times more Ritalin is prescribed in comparison with ten years ago…. Read More

In two days both princess Maxima and Queen Beatrix open and visit two exhibitions in the Netherlands. Princess Maxima opens ‘The treasures from the forbidden city’, an exhibition of 18th century musical clocks, of which many have been restored by restorers from the Dutch Musical… Read More

While a new Dutch conservative government is formed, with possible support of the Party of Freedom from populist Geert Wilders, the Austrian background TV-program Weltjournal sends senior reporter Alexander Steinbach to make a reportage about the Wilders phenomena. The reportage is part of a series… Read More