Live transmission of and background reportages about the wedding of Prince Friso and Mabel Wisse Smit for the reportage program Tagesthemen and the tabloid program Brisant from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD After it came out that Mabel Wisse Smit had an affair… Read More

In the former Dutch fishery town of Volendam ten people died and about 130 are injured after fire swept through a cafe packed with teenagers. Several other youngsters suffered severe burns or smoke inhalations, and about 20 of these victims had to be taken to… Read More

The release a few arrested ‘body packers’ (couriers that swallow packets of cocaine) by the Dutch authorities because of capacity problems caused a political outrage. The result is more Dutch drug controls, more personnel in jails, extra temporary jails more juridical capacity and a new… Read More

The Netherlands is called the Columbia of Europe mainly because of XTC production and export, but also because of the heroin transfers to the UK, Germany and France. For a reportage for the program Europamagazin from the first German public TV channel ARD, Europe correspondent… Read More

For a reportage about the Dutch national elections for the prgram Tagesthemen correspondent Ingeborg Haffert from the Brussels bureau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD needs footage from the program Business Class, a commercial Dutch television programme on RTL 7 presented by real… Read More

After a Dutch girl gets wounded in a train crash during a vacation in Austria, she is flown back to the Netherlands. The news program Tagesschau from the Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF wants to broadcast an interview with the girl and with her doctor…. Read More

Continuation of the non-vaccination policy against Foot-and-mouth disease in the European Union is, according to the Dutch agriculture and horticulture organisation LTO Nederland, no longer justified. During a press conference in the Hague LTO-president Gerard Doornbos explains why his organisation is against the continuation. Looking… Read More

On 12 April 2001, the Dutch Euthanasia Act, fully named the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act, was passed by a parliamentary majority in the Lower House. The law applies to life termination on request (also called euthanasia) and assisted suicide, both… Read More

On the morning that the Dutch Senate is approving a new law, full title Control of Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act, that is legalising euthanasia in the Netherlands the program Morgenmagazin from the German first public broadcaster ARD broadcasts live from… Read More

After England, France and The Netherlands, Germany is the fourth country in Europe that is struck by the devastating foot & mouth disease. The Dutch Agriculture Minister declared strict measures to prevent the highly contagious livestock virus foot-and-mouth disease from spreading around the Netherlands and… Read More

After it becomes clear that the Dutch heir of the throne prince Willem Alexander is engaged to the Argentinian blonde Maxima Zorreguieta, it also came out that her father Jorge Zorreguieta has been an important Minister during the dictatorship of the Jorge Rafael Videla regime…. Read More

Immediately after the May 13, 2000 fireworks disaster in Enschede, the municipality of Enschede, the province of Overijssel and the Dutch state jointly decided to conduct an independent investigation. On May 26, the Fireworks Disaster Investigation Committee was installed. How could the disaster happen, who… Read More