On the last weekend before the Dutch national elections the party leaders hit the streets again to campaign, meet the Dutch voters and to show give interviews to national and international media. The leader of the social democrat party PvdA Diederik Samsom visits Utrecht. During… Read More

In Rotterdam, ‘the city of Pim Fortuyn’, the PVV kicks off its campaign for the upcoming national Dutch elections. Surrounded by an army of security guards- and accompanied by the song ‘The eye of the tiger’ Geert Wilders makes his appearance and clearly expresses his… Read More

A month before the Dutch national elections the parties are kicking off their campaigns. The Socialist Party gathers in the Open-air Museum in Arnhem. On an extremely hot Sunday party leader Roemer gives his campaign speech. The party is the runner up in the polls,… Read More

While the results of the European nuclear stress test are discussed in Brussels, NHK Europe correspondent Takashi Ichinose visits the one and only Dutch nuclear power plant in Borssele in the South East of the Netherlands. The managing director of the nuclear power plant gives… Read More

Straight after the Dutch Cabinet fell, a debate is organised in the Lower House. Main theme is the necessity to keep to the European 3% deficit rule and the accompanying budget cuts. After many weeks of budget talks failed and when it becomes clear that… Read More

While North Korea is known to operate dozens of restaurants across Asia, it is the first time a North Korean restaurant has opened in Europe. The “Pyongyang Restaurant” was opened in the Netherlands last month under a joint venture between North Korea and two Dutch… Read More

The Maastricht treaty, signed on 7 February 1992, came into force in November 1993. The treaty heralded both the creation of the European Union, formerly the ‘European economic community’, and the Euro as a single currency. Two decades on, it’s attracting the wrath of crisis-struck… Read More

All parliaments of the EU member states have to officially agree to the new European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Just after the Dutch parliament okayed the EFSF, the Europe correspondent of the Japanese public TV channel NHK wants the reaction of the Dutch minister of… Read More

After the Norway attacks, were two domestic terrorist attacks by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers’ Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which a total of 77 people were killed, it turns out that the perpetrator made… Read More

While the Japanese society is recovering from the last earthquake, the tsunami and the disaster with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, reporter Ryusuke Kimura from the Japanese public TV channel NHK is send on a trip through Europe to investigate the actual situation in the… Read More

NHK news wants to know what the Dutch think about the upcoming world cup quarter final match between the Netherlands and Brazil for the world cup football in South Africa. Filming Amsterdam in orange, interviews with fans in a Dutch team fan shop and in… Read More

The Japanese Europe correspondent Susumu Kojima from the public TV channel NHK travels to the Netherlands to cover the world cup football match between the Netherlands and Japan. First he visits Venlo, a town in the south of the country were the Japanese key footballer… Read More