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 will take part in the new government for the first time. The reportage also pays attention to the struggle of the left wing and green parties in the Netherlands and in Europe.
Yasuko Takeda visits the neighbourhood Laakkwartier in The Hague to make a portrait of Leo a former coffee house owner that plans to immigrate to Spain. He is very critical about the Dutch migration policy and the large number of inhabitants with a migrant background in his neighbourhood. To Leo it is ‘all too late’.
Yasuko Takeda also visits a Climate March in the Amsterdam business district and interviews the Green Left/Social democrat MEP Bas Eickhout and a young left wing voter. Also a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam is interviewed about the swing to the right in The Netherlands and in Europe.
For the reportage also an elections debate between Dutch European parliament candidates organised by students of the University of Utrecht is filmed. Featurez did research, gave advice, has set up, planned and accompanied the filming, interviewed Leo and did the needed translations.
For this reportage Featurez gave advise, did the research, set-up and planning and accompanied the filming and did Dutch-English translations.
