Dutch media services
Deutsche Welle (German Wave), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW’s satellite television service consists of channels in German, English, Spanish, Hindi, Persian, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union.
The craft of being a Dutch miller has been added to a Unesco cultural heritage list because of the skills involved and the key role millers have in transmitting cultural history. Unesco also points out that the Netherlands has implemented various measures to safeguard the… Read More
Deutsche Welle is intending to produce a background reportage about euthanasia in the Netherlands and wants an update about the actual policy, situation, the latest cases and news. Featurez gives advice and does research.
In the Dutch middle class the fear of decline is present. The dream of home ownership becomes a nightmare for many Dutch people and pulls down the whole country. The fate of over-indebted citizens is becoming an election campaign theme. For the DW TV-program Fokus… Read More
The Netherlands is a tax paradise for many international companies like Ikea, Starbucks and pop stars like The Rolling Stones and U2. They transfer money to the Netherlands in order to hide away from the taxes in the countries where the money was earned. In… Read More
Crash Flight MH17: When grief turns to anger The national mourning in the Netherlands after the downing of flight MH17 is turning towards anger and frustration as the investigation on-site continues to face obstacles. For many in the Netherlands, the repatriation of bodies of the… Read More
After the last Dutch local elections Ahmed Marcouch became as Dutch Moroccan mayor of the Amsterdam neighbourhood Slotervaart. Marcouch is a social democrat, an ex-policeman and a very outspoken man. The mayor wants to fight prejudices and so-called radicalization and fight for a good future… Read More
After it becomes clear that the Dutch heir of the throne prince Willem Alexander is engaged to the Argentinian blonde Maxima Zorreguieta, it also came out that her father Jorge Zorreguieta has been an important Minister during the dictatorship of the Jorge Rafael Videla regime…. Read More
In a large-scale joint operation, Italian and Russian police have arrested 11 members (eight Italians and three Russians) of an international child pornography network that traded videos of violence, torture and murder of children on the internet. The videos were sold to customers in Germany,… Read More