Preceding the European elections the first German public TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighboring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The morning program Morgenmagazin broadcasts live from the Amstel river in the centre of Amsterdam. A… Read More

German prosecutors claim that John Demjanjuk served as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp in present-day Poland between March and late September 1943. In the current attempt to bring him to justice, Munich prosecutors applied for the warrant based on a document from… Read More

This year the city Apeldoorn is chosen by Queen Beatrix to visit during the celebration of the Dutch traditional Queens Day. The Queen and her family arrive at the Oranje park and walk around to see all the culture, hobbies, sports, and crafts presented by… Read More

After the Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen needs actual information, an SNG van and vox pops for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau…. Read More

After a Turkish airplane crashed near the airport Schiphol, correspondent Michael Strempel from the German public TV channel ARD needs a cameraman for news coverage for the news program Tagesschau and the background to the news program Tagesthemen. For these reportages Featurez did research, booked… Read More

In autumn The Storm, a film about the severe Dutch floods in 1953, will come out. On the first of February this year it is 55 years ago that the disaster took place. The public Swiss TV news program Tagesschau reports on the commemoration of… Read More

It turns out that many of the window brothels, coffee shops, tourist- and fast food shops in the Amsterdam red light district will have to close to fight crime in the prostitution branch lessen the backpackers and to attract more wealthy tourists. Final decisions are… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

Dutch researcher Maurice Crul from the University of Amsterdam visits the Metropolis conference in Bonn. A conference about integration in the European Union. Crul presents his research that concludes that, compared to the Netherlands, Belgium and especially France, migrant students in Germany stay behind in… Read More

The verdict is given in the lawsuit started by the group Mothers of Srebrenica at a civil court in The Hague. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths of… Read More

Most of the chicken cages from Kofi, a chicken farmer in Ghana, are empty. Around 90% of the chicken farmers in Ghana already went bankrupt because they cannot sell chicken meat anymore. According to traders it is too expensive. This is because chicken meat from… Read More

Every year, on April 30, the Dutch Queen and her family visit a region in the Netherlands to celebrate the traditional Queens day, the birthday of her mother, the late Princess Juliana. This year Queen Beatrix visits two towns in the province of Friesland. The… Read More