Although insiders say that the situation in the Netherlands is not like it is in Mexico, it is dealing with a parallel industry through which hundreds of millions of drug money pass. A police representative stated that the Dutch police is not totally powerless in… Read More

A lawyer shot dead in the street, a journalist murdered in the center of Amsterdam – in the Netherlands, a drug mafia has developed around the cocaine trade in recent years, earning billions and seemingly stopping at nothing. The murder of crime journalist Peter R…. Read More

Over the last years the intercepted shipments of cocaine in the harbours of Rotterdam and Antwerp seriously increased in number and in quantity. German Europe correspondent Michael Grytz from TV public channel ARD wants to find out what is happening at the Antwerp and Rotterdam… Read More

For the program Europamagazin the ARD Europe correspondent Michael Grytz produces an update reportage about the research after medicines against the corona virus in both Germany and the Netherlands. An update about both the research after a possible anti body at the Utrecht University as… Read More

Euronews is making an overview about research after corona virus vaccines and medicines in Europe. SARS-Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV2), cause of COVID-19, is the infection that the whole world is now trying to beat. The respiratory disease has arguably caused the most serious global crisis… Read More

The latest analysis by Imperial College London is alarming: only a rapid vaccine has the potential to mitigate the corona pandemic. The race has begun. ARD Europamagzin presents the different EU-wide strategies. For this investigation into the research that is done to find a vaccine… Read More

Over the last years there is an increase of organised heavy crime in the Netherlands. Large shipments of cocaine are intercepted in the harbor of Rotterdam, numerous illegal synthetic drugs laboratories are discovered in the south of the country and many liquidations take place in… Read More

‘Anne Frank is one of the most famous authors and diarists the world has ever seen.’ For the children’s news programme Newsround the BBC Children’s department is producing a documentary that ‘tells the story of a little girl who without knowing changed the world’. The… Read More

The craft of being a Dutch miller has been added to a Unesco cultural heritage list because of the skills involved and the key role millers have in transmitting cultural history. Unesco also points out that the Netherlands has implemented various measures to safeguard the… Read More

Nowhere the Dutch local elections are as exciting as in Rotterdam. The late Pim fortuyn party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Livable Rotterdam) is fighting for the vote on the right side with both the PVV from Geert Wilders as the Forum for Democracy from the new populist… Read More

The Swiss parliament will discuss new legislation to make more use of DNA traces in criminal cases. The Netherlands already has less strict rules for the use of DNA material and for DNA research amongst the population. The rape and murder of the Dutch girl… Read More

After years of negotiations, Japan and Europe will finally sign a Free Trade Agreement. NHK correspondent Yasushi Kudo visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch dairy branch is preparing for new trade opportunities with Japan. The sales manager of the Dutch cheese producer Unie… Read More