After winning from Brazil the Dutch football team will play Uruguay in the semi-final of the world cup football. On the day of the semi-final the background program ’10 vor 10’ from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen sends their Europe correspondent to Amsterdam… Read More

Since the expected budget cuts is the main issue in the Dutch national elections, the Europe correspondent from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to see how the Dutch copes with the economic crisis. Innovation and durability seems to be… Read More

More and more Swiss farmers stop farming. Only last year 860 Swiss farmers stopped farming. Since the Swiss are planning to liberalise trade in the agricultural branch farmers are afraid for the European competition. Swiss public TV Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer visits to the Netherlands… Read More

For Greenpeace Switzerland the Dutch economic research bureau Profundo did research after the way tar sand companies are financed by the Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse. Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands… Read More

In the Netherlands unemployment is relatively low compared to the rest of Europe. In Rotterdam politicians even claim to end employment by forcing people to take a job or do a course. In Switzerland there are also plans to force young people to work. For… Read More

After the Swiss decided for a minaret ban by referendum, the Swiss TV-program ’10 vor 10′ wants to have a closer look at anti-Islam legislation in the rest of Europe. Besides France now also Belgium has decided to ban head-scarfs on schools. In Antwerp the… Read More

A right wing party has officially requested a referendum to see if a majority of the Swiss are in favour of a new law to ban minarets. Since the Netherlands is known to house a large number of mosques of which some have minarets, the… Read More

The Swiss are discussing to introduce a logo so consumers can see if a food product is healthy or not. In the Netherlands a consumer logo to indicate that food is health with the name ‘choose consciously’ is already implemented a while ago. The background… Read More

For the summer season Swiss reportage program ’10 vor 10′ asks Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer to make a portrait of Oswalt Kolle. The German sex educator, who became famous in the 1960s for his books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into… Read More

Is the new generation in danger of being lost in Rotterdam. Has the city become a ticking time bomb? The city is largely dependent on its port and the collapse of world trade in the wake of the economic crisis is taking a heavy toll… Read More

Watt, the first ecological discotheque in the World, opens its doors this week in Rotterdam. Three Rotterdam night club entrepreneurs want to give more attention to sustainability in the Dutch night life. There is a dance floor that generates energy that is used to light… Read More

In Switzerland parents receive a letter that tells them where their child will go to school. In the Netherlands parents are free to decide to which school their child will go to. Sometimes this leads to Dutch schools with a majority of native or migrant… Read More