In Austria the legalisation of gay marriage is discussed. Europe correspondent Sonja Sagmeister from the Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch gay marriage is doing. She finds out that Dutch married gays even can adopt children. Sonja Sagmeister… Read More

Because an asylum seeker girl in Austria threatens to kill herself, after her family is send back to Kosovo, ORF correspondent Sonja Sagmeister reports on the actual situation in The Netherlands, where a general amnesty for asylum seekers is given. An Angolan couple with a… Read More

A background reportage preceding the local elections in Antwerp, Belgium. After the second biggest party of Belgium, the extreme right party Vlaams Belang (VB), does not get any political influence from other parties, executing the famous ‘cordon sanitaire’, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the Austrian… Read More

After the Party for Neighbourly love, Freedom and Diversity (PNVD) got permission from the Dutch elections commission to be established, it won a court case trying to prohibit the controversial political party. The three main founders of the PNVD, better known as the ‘paedophile party’,… Read More

After yet a new liquidation, senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the program Weltjournal from the Austrian public broadcaster ORF travels to The Netherlands to produce a background reportage about the series of criminal murders taking place in the Netherlands. it seems the underworld has found… Read More

Teachers of a Berlin school with a large percentage of pupils of migrant descent, searched for publicity to express their cry of distress about the tense working conditions. The pupils are very violent, come to school when they want and there is loads of vandalism…. Read More

Although it does not sound very logic, the Flemish right wing party Vlaams Belang is openly showing that they have good relation with powerful Jews in Antwerp. One of the main common goals is the aversion to Arab migrants. A reporter from the background reportage… Read More

After the brutal murder on the controversial film director and columnist Theo van Gogh, the Dutch society is in a shock. Islamic schools and mosques burn down and around the murder site people of all kinds of cultural backgrounds are debating constantly. The background reportage… Read More

The Somalian Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a striking character in Dutch politics. As an ex-Muslim migrant politician she strongly opposes against the orthodox Islam in the Netherlands. She also criticises the naïve and ignorant way the Dutch handle migrants. The documentary… Read More

While the Gay wedding is constantly in the news in the United States and gays are waiting in line to marry before it is too late, the Netherlands already introduced the legal gay marriage on the first of April 2001. For the documentary program Weltjournal… Read More

Before the trial of Belgian suspected serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester Marc Dutroux starts, the senior reporter Alexander Steinbach from the documentary Austrian public broadcaster ORF program Weltjournal, wants to find out in what way the Belgian system and society is influenced by… Read More

The end of 2003 the Dutch organisation Central Jewish Consultation organises a demonstration against the increasing anti-Semitism in The Netherlands. Because of the cruel politics of Ariel Sharon in Israel and the second Golf War in Iraq, the Dutch Jews say they are confronted with… Read More