Around 20% of the Dutch office buildings are empty. At the same time there is a continuous shortage of student housing, especially in the West of the Netherlands. For a few years a special expert team for the transformation of office buildings it creating student… Read More

On June 13, Shigeru Ban receives the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize in front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation and sponsor of the prize, decorated the Japanese architect personally. Shigeru Ban, a Tokyo-born, 56-year-old architect with offices… Read More

Dutch documentary maker Frans Bromet explores why conflicts play a large role in his life. Via a small secret family feud his search for lost relatives leads to Israel where a major conflict, the Palestinian issue, also leaves deep marks. Why is it so hard… Read More

Before, during and after the European elections in the Netherlands the news program from the Austrian broadcaster ORF produce TV- and radio reportages about the debates, the voting itself, the elections night of the PVV, the first exit poll and the way the Dutch receive… Read More

The news program of the French public TV channel France 2 wants to cover the first day of the European elections in the Netherlands and in Great Brittan. Footage of voting and some interviews with Dutch voters is needed. Some voters are clearly pro-European, others… Read More

Preceding the European elections ORF Europe correspondent Ernst Kenmayer visits the Netherlands to report about and talk to politicians of the parties leading in the Dutch polls. Kenmayer attends the campaign visit of the PVV party leader Geert Wilders on a market in Spijkenisse and… Read More

ANNE is a Dutch theatre performance based on the life of Anne Frank. It covers the two years spent by Anne and her family in the secret annex as well as the events of the times before and after their time in hiding. ANNE is… Read More

Since the PVV from Geert Wilders is teaming up with the French extreme right party Front National and the Dutch party is leading the polls preceding the European Elections, the news program from the second French public channel France 2 reports on the new right… Read More

On Friday 18 April the Dutch Supreme Court decided to prohibit the Martijn Association, because their activities are violating public order. The Supreme Court sentenced that the association trivialises, glorifies and propagates sexual contact with children and that this is a serious infringement of the… Read More

Three Secret Service agents, responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam, were sent home and put on administrative leave after going out for a night of drinking. One of the agents was found drunk and unconscious in an hotel hallway, hotel personnel stated. The hotel… Read More

An increasing number of paedophiles are making use of the so called ‘darknet’, a part of internet that is hidden. It is the opposite of the everyday internet called clearnet. Through special software that makes use of a large amount of different IP-addresses, it is… Read More

The German first public TV program ARD Weltspiegel re-broadcasts a more extensive reportage about Jewish people in Antwerp using genetic tests to fight the chance of diseases that are widespread in the Jewish community. Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community,… Read More