The BBC children’s program Blue Peter produces an episode in The Netherlands. The Blue Peter presenters are confronted with loads of Dutch traditions, habits and clichés. The presenters join costumed clog dancers in the picturesque harbour of Volendam, do a bike and a boat tour… Read More

For the program ‘Europamagazin’ from the first public TV broadcaster ARD, SWR journalist Alexander Stenzel travels to Rotterdam to make a reportage about the so called Rotterdam Law. The Special Measures Metropolitan Problems Act of 22 December 2005 is a Dutch law to regulate the… Read More

After yet a new liquidation, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the program Weltjournal from the Austrian public broadcaster ORF travels to The Netherlands to produce a background reportage about the series of criminal murders taking place in the Netherlands. it seems the underworld has found… Read More

Teachers of a Berlin school with a large percentage of pupils of migrant descent, searched for publicity to express their cry of distress about the tense working conditions. The pupils are very violent, come to school when they want and there is loads of vandalism…. Read More

That lesson, about the Netherlands’ nude beaches, is followed by another: homosexuals have the same rights here as heterosexuals do, including the chance to marry.  Just to make sure everyone gets the message, two men are shown kissing in a meadow. The scenes are brief… Read More

On 11 March 2006, Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milošević was found dead in his prison cell in the UN war crimes tribunal’s detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague, Netherlands. After the death of Milošević the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia… Read More

As bird flu virus spreads across the earth and even people die from it, The Netherlands is still free from the virus. In 2003 the Dutch already experienced a severe outbreak and although bird flu is nearby the Dutch still do not have any bird… Read More

After a possible early work of Vincent van Gogh pops up in France, the Dutch Van Gogh museum does not want to give the painting an authenticity certificate. It turns out that there are many more people with possible early work from ‘Vincent’ that are… Read More

For a documentary on Islam The Canadian production company 90th Parallel organises filming In many different part of the world. The documentary is loosely based on a book by Ugandan-born Canadian author Irshad Manji, called ‘The Trouble with Islam’ and is sponsored by the National… Read More

The Antilles islands are the last Dutch colonial heritage and located in the Caribbean. In the colonial times the islands where used to sell and transit slaves and in present time the islands are popular tourist destination, but are also used to smuggle cocaine to… Read More

While the bird flu virus even takes human lives in Asia, the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC report about the way the Dutch successfully managed to fight the virus in 2003. Dutch poultry farmers are terrified that Bird flu will pop up… Read More

While there are bird flu virus outbreaks everywhere in the world, and even takes lives in Asia, a crew from the news program from the French first TV broadcaster TF1 travel to the Netherlands to check out how the Dutch successfully managed to fight the… Read More