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Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) is a Swiss media company that was created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of Schweizer Radio DRS and Schweizer Fernsehen. The new corporate unit of SRG SSR thus became the largest electronic media company in German-speaking Switzerland. SRF has three main studios: one in Basel, one in Bern and one in Zurich.
On July 28 this year it is exactly 100 years ago that the First World War started. The Great War will be commemorated everywhere, especially in Belgium and the North of France. The Dutch were neutral at the time and never took part in the… Read More
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French extreme right party Front national (FN), visits The Hague to meet Dutch politician Geert Wilders, in an effort to build a powerful far-right political movement during the 2014 EU elections. Receiving Le Pen in The Hague, Wilders said… Read More
Switzerland is reforming its system to handle asylum seekers and it is using the Dutch system as an example. On the 1 of July 2013 Dutch deputy minister Fred Teeven will present changes to the asylum seekers system. He is forced to do so because… Read More
On April 30, 2013, the very last Queens Day will take place in the Netherlands. Next year the national celebration day will take place three days earlier, on the birthday of Willem Alexander and it will be called Kings day. Foregoing the coronation, SRF journalist… Read More
For the Swiss public TV background reportage program SRF ’10 vor 10′ Europe correspondent Jonas Projer wants to check out how popular the monarchy is in the Netherlands and what future it has. For this reportage he also researches the fortune of the Queen and… Read More
In the Netherlands there are insect farms where grasshoppers, crickets and all kinds of worms are produced. According to Arnold van Huis, a professor at the laboratory of entomology at the Wageningen University, the world population is expected to hit 9 billion by 2050, and… Read More
The Netherlands scrambled two F16 fighter jets Wednesday to escort a Spanish passenger plane to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after air traffic controllers could not make contact with the aircraft’s crew. Dutch media initially reported a possible hijacking, but local police and Vueling, the Spanish airline… Read More
On Monday April 23 is becomes clear that, after 7 weeks of negotiations Geert Wilders pulls the plug out of the vital budget talks. This means that the toleration of the PVV for the government ends and that the majority of the Dutch cabinet disappears…. Read More
The Swiss are discussing a possible reform of their consumer guarantee system and the consumer program Kassensturz from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen wants to find out how it is organised elsewhere in Europe. The Netherlands has a variable guarantee system…. Read More
The Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam has been in the news since June last year after the outbreak of an antibiotic bacterium named Klebsiella Oxa-48 that has likely caused the death of 78 people. Question arises on how this new bacterium could appear in the Netherlands…. Read More
Saturday Laura Dekker stepped ashore a on the Caribbean island St. Maarten and finished her sail sailing trip around the world. The 16 year and four month old Dutch sailor has made an impressive journey for her age. It took Dekker one year and one… Read More
In Dutch criminal law a convict can be sentenced to involuntary psychiatric treatment in a special institute called a TBS-clinic. TBS is an abbreviation for “Ter Beschikkingstelling,” literally meaning ‘being placed at disposal’. Legally, such a sentence is not regarded as a punishment like a… Read More