An episode of the Austrian public TV documentary program ORF Weltjournal will focus on European subsidies and especially how these subsidies are wasted and how corruption plays a role. Reseach needs to be done in the Netherlands.

The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor summons successful populist Dutch politician Geert Wilders for offending a group of people and inciting to discrimination and hatred. In June 2008, the Public Prosecutor decided that statements from Wilders were not liable to punishment and dropped the case. Those who… Read More

While a new Dutch conservative government is formed, with possible support of the Party of Freedom from populist Geert Wilders, the Austrian background TV-program Weltjournal sends senior reporter Alexander Steinbach to make a reportage about the Wilders phenomena. The reportage is part of a series… Read More

El Asira, the first Muslim company that sells erotic products via internet, is based in the Netherlands. A reporter from the Austrian public TV background program ORF Weltjournal is send to the Netherlands to cover the story. He interviews the owner of the company, an… Read More

Like many other European states Austria is getting ready for the vaccination of all its inhabitants against Swine fever. The Dutch seems to have a different approach. They only want to vaccinate people that run extra risks to become infected. The background reportage program Weltjournal… Read More

In 2000 the Dutch city of Utrecht started with a new approach to deal with large number of homeless people and the problems it causes. The Utrecht city hall stimulated cooperation between all the different departments and organisations that are involved in helping and handling… Read More

Although homosexuality is very accepted in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam is often seen as the gay capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in Dutch old people’s homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. The L.A. Rieshuis in Amsterdam… Read More

Since the first of July smoking in cafes, restaurants and night clubs is banned in the Netherlands. Tobacco smoking is also forbidden in the famous Dutch coffee shops, while the tolerated cannabis and hash can be smoked pure without a problem. But in the Netherlands… Read More

The Baja Beach Club, a night club in Rotterdam, offers it’s VIP clients the opportunity to have a injected microchip implanted in their upper arm. The chip does not only gives them special access to VIP lounges, but also acts as a debit account from… Read More

Dutch pension fund Paerel Leven offers smokers lucrative interest pay outs that can go up to 16% because of a lower life expectancy. A heavy smoker, already missing one long, the owner of Paerel Leven and a doctor explain what they think of the new… Read More

After the local elections in 2006 Ahmed Marcouch became the first Muslim mayor of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart. The Social Democrat is a man of action, resolutely pushing through tough measures – something that doesn’t always win him friends. Most of Slotervaart’s 45,000 inhabitants have… Read More

In the Dutch year of the religious heritage, a new foundation devoted itself to save churches from demolition. In the upcoming 5 years around 1200 Dutch churches will go out of use because of the secularisation. Many of these churches have to be demolished to… Read More