Half June the Dutch ministry of traffic organised a trade-fare where all kinds of different new high-way-transportation-techniques will be shown on a not yet opened part of a new high way near Leiden . 100 volunteers will help showing en testing the different systems. One… Read More
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Do the players of the Dutch national football-team know the anthem? Do the ‘orange’ fans know them? Watching the training of the Dutch team preparing for the test match Holland – Nigeria . Interviewing the players on the singing of the hymne before the match…. Read More
In some Dutch cities an experiment called Justice in the neighbourhood’ (JIB) started. The idea of JIB. is to bring the activities of the Justice department closer to the people. This means that offenders and victims get a more direct and fast treatment around the… Read More
Rotterdam is recruiting extra policeman to walk around in the streets as look-a-like policeman. It is cheaper and faster to recrute fake-policeman and since it is very difficult to see the difference between the real one and the look-a-like, it is reassuring for the citizen…. Read More
In the middle of Tilburg an insurance company opened europe ‘s biggest ‘flex-office’. None of the 1500 employees has it’s own room, desk or archive. The interior of the building looks more like a futuristic museum than like an head-office of an insurance company. The… Read More
Form the results of a research last week the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs concludes that the dutch workers work themselves to pieces. The Dutch are European top scorers in stress. Causes are re-organisations and budget cuts, the rationalisation of work processes (the use of… Read More
A reportage on the famous Dutch consensus decision-making ‘polder model’. The deliberation method wherein unions, employers and politicians are solving the economical problems together. Visiting the Dutch stock exchange and computer company Tulip, a talk with professor in Economy Eduard Bomhoff, and a portrait of… Read More
Two years ago a play group for children between two and four years old, in the Dutch city Leeuwarden, had difficulties to find a new location. Accidentally an old peoples home for lightly demented had space left. The two groups found each other. Now the… Read More
Amoc/DHV is a reception center for stranded Germans in Amsterdam, subsidized by the Dutch and German state. The ARD Europamagazin reportage follows the day of hard drug addicts, heroine hookers and boy prostitutes surviving in Amsterdam. A fight to get lost Germans back on the… Read More
The Dutch authorities are discussing linking the computer systems of the police, tax office and the social security department When all this information is linked it is easier to catch or ‘keep out people without a residence permit. The general view is that people that… Read More
In the Netherlands Euthanasia is tolerated, accepted and not so much a taboo as in Germany. When will a law be ready? How is euthanasia carried out in the Netherlands? Why are so many doctors too afraid to report euthansia? Rens Potters is very sick… Read More
During the 1997 Amsterdam Euro Summit alternative movements have their own summit called the ‘Platform for a different Europe ‘. A clourful Amsterdam journey along tiny political parties, alternative art movements, militant pressure groups against cars, gay and lesbian associations, squatters- , environmental- and pro-soft… Read More