More and more city councils in The Netherlands decide to accommodate maladjusted people and asocial families in container on the side of town. These vandalism proof mobile housing units and prefab-apartments usually have two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Forced transfer to these provisional… Read More

It is legal for people suffering from dementia to get euthanasia under very strict conditions. The Dutch board of Attorney Generals decided to stop prosecuting a doctor who helped a patient with Alzheimer disease with suicide. The board stated that Alzheimer itself is not an… Read More

The Dutch organisation Social Consultation on Payments advises to implement nationwide rounding off cash payments at 5 euro cents. This advice follows the results of the Eurocent Rounding Trial, which took place in the city Woerden from 26 April to 6 June 2004. Woerden is… Read More

A reportage for the news program Tagesschau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD about the atmosphere in The Netherlands before the European Football Championship match Germany against the Netherlands. In the past the match has been a sensitive event due to some important… Read More

Muhammed Metin Kaplan is a Turkish Muslim fundamentalist leader also known as the ´Kalief from Cologne´. While living in Germany he wants to change the Turkish system into an orthodox Islam state. Since there is a chance that Kaplan will be deported to Turkey, where… Read More

Since years the Dutch have problems with so called body packers, mainly from the Dutch Antilles that smuggle cocaine into Europe in or on their body. After controls on the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol so many individual smugglers are arrested that the Dutch juridical system gets… Read More

On the 15th of June the Dutch will play the Germans on the European Championships in Portugal. This year it is exactly 30 years ago that the Dutch played against Germany in the World Cup Final in 1974. Dutch writer Auke Kok publishes a book… Read More

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

The Somalian Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a striking character in Dutch politics. As an ex-Muslim migrant politician she strongly opposes against the orthodox Islam in the Netherlands. She also criticises the naïve and ignorant way the Dutch handle migrants. The documentary… Read More

‘Brothel creepers Amsterdam famously offers sex, drugs, bicycles and a healthy dose of Dutch liberalism. But what does the city look like from the other side of the bordello window? A A Gill booked his seat, while Jeremy Clarkson did his best to spoil the… Read More

While the Gay wedding is constantly in the news in the United States and gays are waiting in line to marry before it is too late, the Netherlands already introduced the legal gay marriage on the first of April 2001. For the documentary program Weltjournal… Read More

Waste Management in Ireland is currently undergoing radical change. The passing of the Waste Management Act 1996 and the recent Policy Statement on Waste Management from the Minister for the Environment & Local Government (October 1998) gives legislative and policy impetus to this change. These… Read More