After the collapse of the city archive in Cologne caused by the construction of a new underground railway line, the background reportage program Tagesthemen from the German public TV channel ARD plans a reportage about the problems with the construction of a Amsterdam metro line… Read More

After the Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen needs actual information, an SNG van and vox pops for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau…. Read More

In autumn The Storm, a film about the severe Dutch floods in 1953, will come out. On the first of February this year it is 55 years ago that the disaster took place. The public Swiss TV news program Tagesschau reports on the commemoration of… 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

It turns out that many of the window brothels, coffee shops, tourist- and fast food shops in the Amsterdam red light district will have to close to fight crime in the prostitution branch lessen the backpackers and to attract more wealthy tourists. Final decisions are… Read More

In Japan students of a well-known university are arrested because they were growing cannabis plants. While in the Netherlands a cannabis summit is organised and suddenly many coffee shops are threatened with closure, correspondent Go Kamosiha from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK travels to Amsterdam… Read More

After Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, two Dutch cities along the border with Belgium, indicated to close all coffee shops within two years to fight drugs tourism, a special cannabis summit is organised. The mayors of cities with coffee shops meet to discuss the problems… 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

Halfway 2008 Greenpeace published a report on the industrial shellfish fishery along the coast of Mauretania. The conclusions are that both nature and the local economy are damaged severely. Greenpeace warns that the new plans of a Dutch shell fish fishery company will be even… Read More

Dutch researcher Maurice Crul from the University of Amsterdam visits the Metropolis conference in Bonn. A conference about integration in the European Union. Crul presents his research that concludes that, compared to the Netherlands, Belgium and especially France, migrant students in Germany stay behind in… Read More

Although homosexuality is very accepted in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam is often seen as the gay capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in Dutch old people’s homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. The L.A. Rieshuis in Amsterdam… Read More

Watt, the first ecological discotheque in the World, opens its doors this week in Rotterdam. Three Rotterdam night club entrepreneurs want to give more attention to sustainability in the Dutch night life. There is a dance floor that generates energy that is used to light… Read More