The German chemical company Bayer is laying a pipe line for CO2 in Germany. CO2 (carbon dioxide ) is used for the fabrication of plastics and it is highly toxic. Often the Bayer pipeline CO2 only passes by at a few meters of houses. So… Read More

The Dutch public TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Dutch political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN… Read More

In the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Port Services attempted to unload a suspicious load of the oil tanker Probo Koala, but they discovered the cargo was much more toxic than the Dutch company Trafigura leasing the boat, had declared at beforehand. When the costs for safely… 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

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

At the first day the Public Prosecutor will formulate its demands in the trial of Mohammed B., the world press is present outside the heavily guarded special Amsterdam court, called ‘the Bunker’. Mohammed Bouyeri is a second-generation Moroccan-Dutch Islamic terrorist that murdered Dutch film director… Read More

After the French also the Dutch organise a national referendum about the future European constitution. The rest of Europe is waiting for the verdict of the Dutch. In case also a majority of the voters in the Netherlands will vote against a future European constitution… Read More

Since Maastricht, the capital of the Dutch province Limburg, is confronted with a huge wave of drugs tourists and a vast growing cannabis cultivation branch, mayor Gerd Leers decided to organise a special cannabis conference to discuss all the problems and possible solutions with the… Read More

Traditionally on April 30, the Dutch queen Beatrix celebrates her birthday with a huge popular national party day. She prolonged the tradition that was born under her mother’s reign: Queen Juliana’s (Queen of The Netherlands from 1948 till 1980) birthday was on April 30th. This… Read More

The Dutch organise the largest terrorist attack exercise in Europe with the title Terror exercise Bonfire. The complete Amsterdam Arena stadium and surroundings are used for the exercise and on national, regional and local level all involved departments and organisations cooperate in checking if they… Read More

The German Minister of Foreign Affairs is heavily criticised about giving out far too many German visa’s for Ukrainian people. Did the Dutch warn the Germans for this? The political program Monitor from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD wants research to be done.

The start of the first pro forma trial of Mohammed B., the suspect of the murder on Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, starts in the highly secured court in Amsterdam with the nickname ‘The Bunker’. For the reportage program Tagesthemen from the German first… Read More