An organ transplant scandal, involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs, has shocked Germany. The German public TV program ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs…. Read More

Canadian documentary maker Sheona McDonald from Dimestore Productions got a commission to make a pilot for a documentary about Woman and porn. Over the last years woman became much more active in the porn industry. As producers and as end users. After the sudden success… Read More

The FBI is investigating how needles ended up in sandwiches served on four Delta Airline flights from Amsterdam to the US on Sunday. The sandwiches were produced by Amsterdam catering company Gate Gourmet, which has launched its own investigation into the incident. Needles were found… Read More

There is a rumour that a Russian series for kids ’Guest from the future’ is banned by a court in Amsterdam. This science fiction children series was created in 1985 and many kids in Soviet Union were in love with it and especially with the… Read More

Robin van Helsum persuaded Berlin officials he was an orphaned ‘Forest Boy’ who lived in the woods. Now his Dutch identity is revealed – and his troubled story with it. ABC News wants confirmation that the forest boy has the Dutch nationality, more information about… Read More

A European directive, officially entitled ‘on the right of information in criminal proceedings’, was adopted by the Council last in April, after the European Parliament approved it last December. It will enter into force upon publication, but will give European member States a two-year period… Read More

An episode of the Austrian public TV documentary program ORF Weltjournal will focus on European subsidies and especially how these subsidies are wasted and how corruption plays a role. Reseach needs to be done in the Netherlands.

The economic and financial crisis has overthrown governments all-over Europe. In the Netherlands, the political parties have clashed over austerity measures. And while the outgoing government increases the retirement age and VAT, the Dutch are becoming ever more disillusioned. The TV-program Euronews Reporter sends reporter… Read More

After it became clear that the Dutch also need to come up with serious budget cuts to reach the European 3% deficit rule, the French Swiss correspondent comes to the Netherlands to make a report about the crisis in the Netherlands. How is it possible… Read More

Straight after the Dutch Cabinet fell, a debate is organised in the Lower House. Main theme is the necessity to keep to the European 3% deficit rule and the accompanying budget cuts. After many weeks of budget talks failed and when it becomes clear that… Read More

On Monday April 23 is becomes clear that, after 7 weeks of negotiations Geert Wilders pulls the plug out of the vital budget talks. This means that the toleration of the PVV for the government ends and that the majority of the Dutch cabinet disappears…. Read More

On Monday April 2, 2012, it was exactly 10 years ago that the Dutch where the first in the world to pass a law that legalised euthanasia. On this historic day the Russian private TV channel Ren TV broadcasts a background reportage about the law,… Read More