After it turns out that the Dutch national elections will be a fight between the liberal party VVD and the social democrat party PvdA, the Swiss news program Tagesschau covers ‘Het Lagerhuis’ (House of Commons) a very popular life Dutch debate program where a mix… Read More

On 20 April 2010 a disastrous oil spill starts off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. The oil spill that was named the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered the largest marine oil spill in… Read More

Is the new generation in danger of being lost in Rotterdam. Has the city become a ticking time bomb? The city is largely dependent on its port and the collapse of world trade in the wake of the economic crisis is taking a heavy toll… Read More

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden visit the Netherlands for a three day state visit. At the start of their visit they are greeted by Queen Beatrix and get a welcoming ceremony in the Hague. During the three days, the Swedish King… Read More

After eleven years the Dutch finally have a few days of real cold winter weather. Immediately the Dutch put on their skates for a skating ride on the rare natural ice. Within in a few days the skating fever is spreading like wildfire, resulting in… 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

Faktor Giel is a weekly reality based Dutch television show, in which TV host Giel Beelen experiences excruciating experiments. Giel checks out how long he can stay in a freezing chamber, how it is to be buried alive or to be tortured. How does one… Read More

Aquapol is an European partnership of ten countries for police work at inland waterways, on the seas and in seaports, aimed at advancing safety and fighting crime in Europe. In 2008 Aquapol’s presidency was given to the Netherlands. One of the areas of attention for… Read More

Since November 2007 it is known that the far right wing politician Geert Wilders has a plan for an anti-Koran film. The film with the name Fitna will probably be launched on the internet before the first of April 2008. The Freedom Party (PVV) leader… Read More

ABC reporter Chris Cuomo and two colleagues on the island Aruba reconstruct the last hours of Natallee Holloway, the American girl that disappeared on Aruba in 2005, using the secretly taped admissions from the main Dutch suspect Joran van der S. in a Dutch crime… Read More

At the end of last year the Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders announced that he will produce a critical film about the Koran. The Dutch society and politics fear the consequences of a film that has not yet been launched. For a reportage for the… Read More

The Anne Frank tree is the horse-chestnut tree in the inner garden behind the Anne Frank House in the centre of Amsterdam. A tree that featured in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank described the tree from the annex, the building… Read More