Dutch media services
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The new EU soil strategy for 2030 is a key deliverable of the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030. It will contribute to the objectives of the European Green Deal. Healthy soils are essential for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy and halting desertification… Read More
After the recent escalation with Turkey, the tension before the Dutch general elections is particularly large: the extreme right populist Geert Wilders delivers a head-to-head race with the right-wing government division of Premier Marc Rutte. With his anti-Islamic and anti-EU course Wilders has led to… Read More
The Dutch lower house accepted new legislation to ban face covering clothing, also called the burka ban. Now the Dutch senate has to decide if this new legislation will be implemented. For the Austrian ORF program Orientierung Europe correspondent Cornelia Primosch visits the Netherlands to… Read More
After the Dutch government made clear that they intend to come up with new legislation for help with suicide for people that want to die, ORF Weltjournal reporter Alexander Steinbach comes to the Netherlands for new reportage about the current Dutch euthanasia legislation and practice…. Read More
Straight after it became clear that a majority voted for the UK to leave the European Union in the Brexit referendum, ORF reporter Patrick Hafner visits the Netherlands for a background reportage for the program Weltjournal. He wants to find out how Euro sceptic the… Read More
After the public prosecution department in Austria launched an investigation into a speech made by Dutch anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders in Vienna, ORF wants an interview with the PVV politician. Wilders made the speech in March to members of the Austrian far-right party FPÖ. In… Read More
After the news comes out that flight HM17 has crashed in east Ukraine, the news program from the Austrian broadcaster ORF need help to cover the tragic event.
Before, during and after the European elections in the Netherlands the news program from the Austrian broadcaster ORF produce TV- and radio reportages about the debates, the voting itself, the elections night of the PVV, the first exit poll and the way the Dutch receive… Read More
Preceding the European elections ORF Europe correspondent Ernst Kenmayer visits the Netherlands to report about and talk to politicians of the parties leading in the Dutch polls. Kenmayer attends the campaign visit of the PVV party leader Geert Wilders on a market in Spijkenisse and… Read More
The Austrian public TV program ORF Weltjournal is planning a background reportage about the Loverboy phenomena and wants to know what the actual situation is in The Netherlands. Loverboy or teenage pimp is a pimp who pimps girls through seduction tactics to eventually exploit them… Read More
Civil society groups everywhere in Europe are gearing up to fight the European Commission’s new attempts to privatize public water services. Civil society organizations believe this privatization conditionality is “unacceptable” and “seriously undermines the right to water.” The Netherlands is famous for its water works… Read More
On the 12th of September, the day of the Dutch national elections, Austrians public TV Europe correspondent Ernst Kernmeyer covers the vote and the outcome itself. Since the Dutch vote with the red pencil, it takes till 3 o’clock at night before it is definite… Read More