A three times 50 minute documentary with the title ‘A clean sweep for the Red-light district’ (De Bezem door de Wallen) is broadcasted on March 19 and 26, and the 2nd of April 2012 by the Dutch public TV program NCRV Dokument. In the summer… Read More

While North Korea is known to operate dozens of restaurants across Asia, it is the first time a North Korean restaurant has opened in Europe. The “Pyongyang Restaurant” was opened in the Netherlands last month under a joint venture between North Korea and two Dutch… Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about researchers creating a more contagious and fatal form of the H5N1 bird flu. Researchers in the Netherlands have manipulated the virus to make it more transmissible among humans, and it could potentially kill millions… Read More

As it is widely known for many years the Netherlands had a policy of tolerance towards soft drug use. This is not a laissez-faire policy, however, since the sales of cannabis and hashish to the public in so called coffeeshops is strictly regulated. A common… Read More

In the Netherlands a majority of the MPs is supporting a law proposal to ban Kosher and Halal slaughter methods. The Dutch Senate needs to votes on this law proposal from the unique Dutch Party for the Animals. Just before the vote a crew from… Read More

While in Switzerland the reception of asylum seekers is organised in a very decentralised and bureaucratic way, the Netherlands totally revised its asylum seekers system over the years. Procedures are as short as possible and the asylum seekers are housed in central reception centres. The… Read More

The Scottish BBC program Eòrpa has been filming in Romania to cover the problems the country has to enter the Schengen treaty, making free transport of persons and goods possible. There were notable objections from the Dutch and Finnish foreign ministers. For this background reportage… Read More

All parliaments of the EU member states have to officially agree to the new European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Just after the Dutch parliament okayed the EFSF, the Europe correspondent of the Japanese public TV channel NHK wants the reaction of the Dutch minister of… Read More

After the Norway attacks, were two domestic terrorist attacks by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers’ Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which a total of 77 people were killed, it turns out that the perpetrator made… Read More

As a measure to fight soft drugs tourism the Dutch government presented a series of proposals aimed at transforming coffeeshops into closed clubs. These clubs should have a maximum amount of members, all of whom have to reside in the Netherlands. To get entrance the… Read More

While the Japanese society is recovering from the last earthquake, the tsunami and the disaster with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, reporter Ryusuke Kimura from the Japanese public TV channel NHK is send on a trip through Europe to investigate the actual situation in the… Read More

Professor Merel Kindt from the University in Amsterdam (UvA) managed to reduce fear. By administering the Beta-blocker Propranolol, the UvA research team managed to weaken the memories of fear of testees. A very interesting research result is the fact that the fear response does not… Read More