Since November 2007 it is known that the far right wing politician Geert Wilders has a plan for an anti-Koran film. The film with the name Fitna will probably be launched on the internet before the first of April 2008. The Freedom Party (PVV) leader… Read More

An epic landscape experiment is underway in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make the Netherlands, the most developed country of all European states, wild again. Its method is to establish a vast network of natural habitats and wildlife corridors. Frans Vera, one of the… Read More

After the implementation of the new Dutch naturalisation law around 250 thousand migrants, who often already live in The Netherlands for years, are obliged to do a naturalisation course, including an exam. The costs for the course and the exams have to be partly paid… Read More

Five years ago the Dutch city The Hague started with a special dentist visiting hour for homeless people. The formula turns out to be a huge success. Getting rid of the homeless cliché, namely bad teeth, helps homeless to take the next steps to a… Read More

A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the problems long term asylum seekers face in the Netherlands. Caused by the very strict Dutch immigration legislation, many asylum seekers that are already waiting for a residence permit for more than five years are… Read More

Since the Dutch have a special and innovative way to handle their fishing quota, a crew from the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa travels to the Netherlands to investigate how the system works and how it differs from the UK and from the rest of Europe…. Read More

While the bird flu virus even takes human lives in Asia, the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC report about the way the Dutch successfully managed to fight the virus in 2003. Dutch poultry farmers are terrified that Bird flu will pop up… Read More

After the flood disaster in New Orleans the background reportage program Eòrpa from the Scottish BBC produces a reportage about the actual status of the Dutch Delta Works, the system of dams that is constructed after the disastrous floods in 1953, and that should protect… Read More

More and more city councils in The Netherlands decide to accommodate maladjusted people and asocial families in container on the side of town. These vandalism proof mobile housing units and prefab-apartments usually have two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Forced transfer to these provisional… Read More

It is legal for people suffering from dementia to get euthanasia under very strict conditions. The Dutch board of Attorney Generals decided to stop prosecuting a doctor who helped a patient with Alzheimer disease with suicide. The board stated that Alzheimer itself is not an… Read More

Liveable Rotterdam, the new populist party in Rotterdam, lately came up with a plan to forbid migrants to settle in some of the poorer districts in the city. Since it is not allowed to judge on skin colour, origin or religion, some are against the… Read More

For the program Eòrpa from the Scottisch BBC produce a background reportage about financial problems at football lcubs in the smaller football leagues in Europe. Vitesse is a Dutch club near the German border in the city Arnhem. They play their matches in an ultramodern… Read More