A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera’s equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive. The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear… Read More

Research shows that the Dutch took over the position of the ‘tallest people in the world’ from the Americans. At the same time the second runners up, the Scandinavian countries, stay behind now. For the program Nightline ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto travels to the… Read More

Before and during the Dutch national elections Europe correspondent Christoph Nuffer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen reports from the Netherlands on the political situation and the issue’s that play a role in the campaigns. Social democrat leader Wouter Bos, is followed during… Read More

Preceding the Dutch national elections, reporter Françoise-Marie Morel from the first French TV channel TF1 travels to the Netherlands to produce a reportage for the news program about what role the strict immigration policy plays in the upcoming elections. Françoise-Marie Morel meets a Dutch Moroccan… Read More

Filming BBC reporter Mike Donkin reports on the rigid Dutch immigration policy, and especially on the situation of the numerous asylum seekers that are waiting for a residence permit for a long time and that still can be thrown out of the Netherlands any moment…. Read More

The European Commission lately warned the European member states that the import of counterfeit goods in Europe is increasing seriously. While China’s production is booming, also the production and export of counterfeit products increases. Some say that factories in China make legal products in the… Read More

A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the problems long term asylum seekers face in the Netherlands. Caused by the very strict Dutch immigration legislation, many asylum seekers that are already waiting for a residence permit for more than five years are… Read More

for the reportage program ‘10 vor 10’ Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to report about the fact that in The Netherlands and in France suddenly the ‘Armenian Issue’ is in the news again. In… Read More

A background reportage preceding the local elections in Antwerp, Belgium. After the second biggest party of Belgium, the extreme right party Vlaams Belang (VB), does not get any political influence from other parties, executing the famous ‘cordon sanitaire’, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the Austrian… Read More

Since the Dutch have a special and innovative way to handle their fishing quota, a crew from the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa travels to the Netherlands to investigate how the system works and how it differs from the UK and from the rest of Europe…. Read More

The Scottish broadcaster STV produces a documentary about the history of the Church of Scotland in Europe. For the documentary also filming in the Netherlands is needed. At the English Reformed Church, one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, in a the beautiful courtyard Begijnenhof… Read More

In the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Port Services attempted to unload a suspicious load of the oil tanker Probo Koala, but they discovered the cargo was much more toxic than the Dutch company Trafigura leasing the boat, had declared at beforehand. When the costs for safely… Read More