2003 is the year of the farm in The Netherlands. The Dutch country side is changing rapidly and since 1940 100.000 from the 192.000 Dutch farms has been demolished. The 2003 Year of the Farm Foundation farm especially wants to promote and stimulate innovation in… Read More

The Dutch Religious Peace Deliberation organisation IKV organises a series of activities before the Dutch report of the Srebrenica massacre is presented by the Royal Dutch Institute for War Documentation. Apart from the publication of the pamphlet ‘Srebrenica, the Genocide that was not prevented’, the… Read More

With increases in technology and tools that allow people to work remotely, teleworking has become common in different industries. Telework is a way for companies to save money on infrastructure costs while allowing their employees to work from a place convenient for them. The Netherlands… Read More

For years The Netherlands is known to be the turn table in the world wide XTC production and trade. Apart from a lot of production also the export of the synthetic pills is organised from the Dutch low lands. Apart from the possibility to bring… Read More

The Libyan suspects of the terrorist bomb attack against an American Pan Am Flight 103 causing a huge plane crash in the Scottish village Lockerbie, are adjudged in a special court governed by Scots law in The Netherlands. After the sudden departure of Lord Hardie… Read More

At the moment that euthanasia is a political issue in Scotland, Professor of the Free Church College, Donald Maccloud visits The Netherlands to investigate the way the Dutch are working towards legalisation. The professor meets pro- and contra family doctors, the chairman of the ‘Life… Read More

A crofter (traditional farmer) from Scotland is checking out how the Dutch farmers are going back to the basics. Collectively. So called multi-purpouse farming. A farmer familly keeps cows, produce organically and look after nature as well. In the summer the farm partly turns into… Read More

A reportage on the famous Dutch consensus decision-making ‘polder model’. The deliberation method wherein unions, employers and politicians are solving the economical problems together. Visiting the Dutch stock exchange and computer company Tulip, a talk with professor in Economy Eduard Bomhoff, and a portrait of… Read More

Two years ago a play group for children between two and four years old, in the Dutch city Leeuwarden, had difficulties to find a new location. Accidentally an old peoples home for lightly demented had space left. The two groups found each other. Now the… Read More

Reportage on German, Belgium and French drug tourism in Maas­tricht . A journey from coffeeshop to coffeeshop and the views of Maastricht the police, to politicians and specialists. How many foreigners visit the border city Maastricht to buy drugs? What do they think of the… Read More

In the Netherlands euthanasia is tolerated. The Dutch are preparing a euthanasia-law. How is euthanasia carried out in the Netherlands? A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the Dutch daily practice interviewing specialists, doctors, patients, the Minister of Justice and and both… Read More

A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the Dutch bulb- and flower-industry. Cultivation of bulbs in the countryside, research in the bulb-lab and the auction of millions of flowers and plants in the worlds largest commercial building. Activities: research, set-up & planning… Read More