Since every ten minutes a bicycle is stolen in Switzerland, the authorities decided to find a way to fight the theft. A possibility is to start the registration of bikes, just like cars. In the year 2000, the ATC, the Anti-Theft Chip, was introduced in… Read More

Two United States residents of Yemeni descent flying from Chicago to Amsterdam are detained by the Dutch police after landing on Schiphol Airport. The news program from the American TV channel ABC to know all details about the arrest, where the detainees are locked up,… Read More

After the Dutch national team lost the world cup final from Spain the fans are in total despair after not winning the world cup for the third time. The news program Tagesschau from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen wants to broadcast a reportage… Read More

NHK news wants to know what the Dutch think about the upcoming world cup quarter final match between the Netherlands and Brazil for the world cup football in South Africa. Filming Amsterdam in orange, interviews with fans in a Dutch team fan shop and in… Read More

The Japanese Europe correspondent Susumu Kojima from the public TV channel NHK travels to the Netherlands to cover the world cup football match between the Netherlands and Japan. First he visits Venlo, a town in the south of the country were the Japanese key footballer… Read More

The Swiss minister of Transport Moritz Leuenberger attends ‘From corridors to network’, a conference for ministers from the European Union on so-called rail freight corridors in Rotterdam. The news program Tagesschau form the public Swiss TV reports on the Signing of a Ministerial declaration, and… Read More

The collapse of the Dutch government has presented the Dutch electorate with a problem to which no easy solution seems obvious. The government has split over the question of troops in Afghanistan, but this can be seen as merely the explosive element that has blown… Read More

In Switzerland a new chef of the Swiss Post is taken on to modernise the system. The Swiss were too late with privatising and the Dutch postal company TNT Express is portrayed for the Swiss public TV program Rundschau as an example of successful innovation… Read More

After the failed attack on flight 253 landing in Detroit, the Dutch decided to use body scanners to scan all passengers leaving for the US. Besides the body scanners that were already tested, the Dutch authorities orders 20 extra high tech scanners. The background reportage… Read More

The Nigerian youngster that tried to blow up a Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear while landing in Detroit, took the plane from the Amsterdam airport Schiphol. The Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs gives a press conference to bring across what they know about… Read More

The federal initiative “against the construction of minarets” from a a group of right wing politicians, mainly from the Swiss People’s Party, the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland and the Egerkinger Komittee (“Egerkingen Committee”), was a successful populist referendum initiative in Switzerland to prevent the… Read More

The Swiss are discussing to introduce a logo so consumers can see if a food product is healthy or not. In the Netherlands a consumer logo to indicate that food is health with the name ‘choose consciously’ is already implemented a while ago. The background… Read More