The French government will unveil the paths of its justice reform with five major projects. One of them focuses on the effectiveness of the jail sentence. There are alternatives to prison, such as community service. France 2 plans a special broadcast about the French jail… Read More

On 28 September the Joint Investigation Team organised a press conference to present the first results of the criminal investigation into the crash of flight MH17. This press conference took place after the meeting of the Joint Investigation Team with the relatives of the victims… Read More

The Swiss parliament will discuss new legislation to make more use of DNA traces in criminal cases. The Netherlands already has less strict rules for the use of DNA material and for DNA research amongst the population. The rape and murder of the Dutch girl… Read More

The Dutch horse meat scandal already shocked Europe in 2013. Now it turned out that the Dutch are still the main player in this criminal network. European investigators have seized an international ring of meat fraudsters and seized a total of 66 suspects. The criminal… Read More

Over the last years the Dutch partly managed to process the large influx by using former jails to house refugees and immigrants. France3 visits an asylum seekers centre in the former jail the Grittenborgh in the eastern town Hoogeveen. The location manager of the centre,… Read More

After years of negotiations, Japan and Europe will finally sign a Free Trade Agreement. NHK correspondent Yasushi Kudo visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch dairy branch is preparing for new trade opportunities with Japan. The sales manager of the Dutch cheese producer Unie… Read More

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is covering the Dutch national elections profoundly. In a so-called 100 minute program Dutch society and culture is investigated intensively. Besides filming for this program extra reportages are produced about the rise extreme right in the Netherlands, about Wilders voters,… Read More

After the recent escalation with Turkey, the tension before the Dutch general elections is particularly large: the extreme right populist Geert Wilders delivers a head-to-head race with the right-wing government division of Premier Marc Rutte. With his anti-Islamic and anti-EU course Wilders has led to… Read More

TF1 reporter Liseron Boudoul is assigned to create a news reportage about the upcoming Dutch general elections. She visits campaigning activities of Geert Wilders and other PVV politicians in the small town Valkenburg in the far south of the country. Liseron Boudoul interviews Geert Wilders… Read More

A week before the Dutch general elections, Terry Moran, the Foreign Europe Correspondent from the American TV-channel ABC, is visiting the Netherlands to cover campaigning activities of the right-wing ant-Islam politician Geert Wilders. Before France and Germany, the general elections in the Netherlands are the… Read More

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, one of the toughest opponents of Islam in Europe, will maybe soon be the winner of the Dutch elections. In the polls his party is just behind the Dutch liberal party VVD of prime minister Mark Rutte. Why succeeds this… Read More

For a news report for the France 3 program 19/20 about the upcoming Dutch general elections, reporter Pauline Armandet is looking for a Dutch citizen that supports the Party of Freedom of Geert Wilders. She visits the traditional bike repair shop of Frans van der… Read More