While a new Dutch government is being formed, the United States decide to invade Iraq. The Dutch support the Americans and Brits politically, but not military. A crew from the German French TV broadcaster Arte travels to the Netherlands to find out why the Dutch… Read More

For the program Foreign Correspondent the Europe correspondent Michael Brissenden from the Australian public broadcaster ABC visits the Netherlands for an in depth reportage about the status of the Dutch multicultural society. A so called black school (with a majority of pupils with a migrant… Read More

After the sensational win of the new populist party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) from the gay politician Pim Fortuyn and after his brutal assassination on the 6th of May 2002, the Europe correspondent Michael Brissenden from the Australian public broadcaster ABC travels to the Netherlands… Read More

A White mother who gave birth to one white and one black child after a fertility clinic made a mistake has agreed to hand over the black baby to his biological parents. The saga of the Fasanos’ babies has highlighted the dangers of fertility treatment… Read More

During the recordings of the album Let It Be by the British pop band The Beatles, all sessions were filmed. Since the first name for the album initially was ‘Get back’, the tapes were called ‘The Get back tapes’. When the film Let it be… Read More

After the government with the populist party List Pim Fortuyn resigned, the Dutch are organising the second national elections within a year. After the rise and fall of the new politician Pim Fortuyn the Dutch are openly discussing the sensitive issues in their society. Preceding… Read More

After a Dutchman designed the Gatso meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now experiments take place in the Netherlands with a new speeding system called ‘route control’. A system where different camera’s record traffic over several kilometres meters highway and a… Read More

After the oil spill disaster at the Spanish coast caused by the oil tanker Prestige, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the documentary Weltjournal from the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, wants to find out what the safety situation of oil tankers is in general and what… Read More

Two years after the Dutch prostitution branch became totally legal, by lifting the so called Brothel Law, filming director Ralf Gierkes travels to the Netherlands to make reportages for the program Europamagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD and for the for the… Read More

On 15 October tens of thousands of people along the route of the funeral procession paid their last respects to Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, who died on 6 October. The prince’s body was transferred to the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft in a grey… Read More

The Netherlands is called the Columbia of Europe mainly because of XTC production and export, but also because of the heroin transfers to the UK, Germany and France. For a reportage for the program Europamagazin from the first German public TV channel ARD, Europe correspondent… Read More

A reporter from the American West Coast school broadcaster Channel One travels to the Netherlands to have a look at the fight against XTC production, trade and use in The Netherlands. An XTC specialist and a public prosecutor from the special Synthetic Drugs organisation Unit… Read More