On the 29th of October 2025, general elections were held in the Netherlands. After two years of right-wing government in the Netherlands and the populist politician Geert Wilders from the Party for Freedom (PVV) bringing it down, the question is whether Wilders will be able… Read More

On the 27th of May the French Lower House approved a law to legalise ’aid in dying’ in cases of ongoing mental or physical suffering. It should also give terminally ill patients an enforceable right to palliative care, which is now often poor or inaccessible…. Read More

‘Cocaine: Europe Under the Influence’ is an ambitious investigative documentary that explores the profound and growing impact of cocaine trafficking across Europe. This 90 minute prime time film, directed by Kamal Redouani and produced for France Télévisions (France 2), offers an in depth look at… Read More

A reportage about the need for attention for better accessibility for wheelchair users in public space portraying Dutchman Kees-Jan van der Klooster. He won a gold medal in mono-skiing at the Paralympic Winter Games and is organizing clinics teaching wheelchair users to overcome the many… Read More

Over the past 40 years, much has been cut back in the field of ageing and elderly care in the Netherlands: the ‘old people’s homes’ and care homes are no more and elderly can only go to a nursing home when they are very sick…. Read More

‘Inside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses are measured out in murders.’ This new eight-part investigative podcast series from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia reveals that the world’s legitimate business empires, trading floors and boardrooms have… Read More

Although selling cannabis has been tolerated in the Netherlands for decades, growing cannabis is still illegal. Soon, this might change because the government is experimenting with legal cannabis production. In 2019, the Dutch government launched a cannabis experiment in which entrepreneurs can start growing cannabis… Read More

Because of the swing to the right in the last Dutch national elections, NHK Europe correspondent Yasuko Takeda covers the European elections in the Netherlands. The reportage zooms in on the rise of the Freedom Party from Geert Wilders that won the elections and that… Read More

Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam firebrand and the leader of the Dutch People’s Party for Freedom (PVV) came first in last November’s parliamentary elections with 23 per cent of the votes. The champion of national preference gained unprecedented support in a climate of deep economic and… Read More

The Scottish production company MacTV is producing a documentary series about peat. The series is exploring magnificent peatlands in Scotland and around the world – and why they are the unsung eco-heroes of our planet. Presenter Anne McAlpine takes us on a journey from the… Read More

For an episode of the Euronews program ‘Witness’, journalist Hans von der Brelie travels to the Netherlands where many farmers are opposing government plans to drastically reduce livestock in order to slash nitrogen emissions, a major source of pollution in the country. He visits and… Read More

The Scottish production company MacTV is producing a documentary series about peat. The Netherlands was exploiting peat’s industrial potential from the 13th Century. Without any large seams of coal, the country’s huge sugar and salt refining industries depended on peat to fuel them. Centuries of… Read More