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ARD Europamagazin – Report from Brussels is a magazine program with information about politics in Europe. It has been broadcast on German First Television since 7 October 1989 and is produced weekly, alternating between the broadcasters WDR and SWR.
On 2 November 2014, the previous report from Brussels on WDR television was merged with Europamagazin. The program on WDR television was then discontinued on 10 December 2014. Since then, the title of the programs produced by WDR at the ARD studio in Brussels has been “Europamagazin – Report from Brussels”, while the programs produced by SWR in Stuttgart are simply called Europamagazin.
For the program Europamagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD, a series of reportages are produced on the Dutch Antilles islands in the Caribbean. For the research and set-up of the filming a connected Dutch Antilles fixer is needed. For these reportages Featurez… Read More
The Dutch city Venlo decided to finally execute the plan to create a drive-in coffee shop at the German – Dutch border to fight the annoyance of especially German drug tourists in the centre of town. The Dutch Minister of Justice is not very happy… Read More
After the Dutch ex-Queen Juliana died the Dutch are in mourning. Shortly after the funeral of Prince Claus now a new member of the Dutch Royal family is buried in the historical city of Delft For the news program Tagesschau, the reportage program Europamaqgazin and… Read More
Amsterdam police chief J. Kuiper warned his 6,000 officers in a letter that they should not use ‘party drugs’ in their spare time. Use of tolerated drugs is ‘dereliction of duty’ for officers and can lead to dismissal. Last year, nine Amsterdam cops were caught… Read More
Since the 1 of January of 2003 imams with a temporary permit of stay in the Netherlands are obliged to do a special naturalisation course for newcomers. One of the foreign imams became the talk of the town because he offended homosexuals. The naturalisation course… Read More
Two years after the Dutch prostitution branch became totally legal, by lifting the so called Brothel Law, filming director Ralf Gierkes travels to the Netherlands to make reportages for the program Europamagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD and for the for the… Read More
The Netherlands is called the Columbia of Europe mainly because of XTC production and export, but also because of the heroin transfers to the UK, Germany and France. For a reportage for the program Europamagazin from the first German public TV channel ARD, Europe correspondent… Read More
Over the last years many smart shops where established in different Dutch cities. New outlets for new drugs attracting loads of European tourists. The main smart drug is the magic mushroom, but there is a possibility that the Dutch higher court will pronounce a sentence… Read More
Immediately after the May 13, 2000 fireworks disaster in Enschede, the municipality of Enschede, the province of Overijssel and the Dutch state jointly decided to conduct an independent investigation. On May 26, the Fireworks Disaster Investigation Committee was installed. How could the disaster happen, who… Read More
In 1975 and 1977 Dutch Moluccans hijacked trains and a school many people were taken hostage. At the time the hijackers were fighting for their own state. The hijackings ended with shelling by the a special assistance unit, followed by a violent assault by the… Read More
After 58 dead bodies of Chinese immigrants were found in a lorry in the port town of Dover, United Kingdom on 18 June 2000, reporter Michael Heussen travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage about the smuggling of Chinese people to England for… Read More
A few months after the disastrous explosions at the firework factory in Enschede, the local football club FC Twente organises a benefit match against the German football club Werder Bremen for the victims and the surviving relatives. The right moment for Europe correspondent Ingeborg Haffert… Read More