On the day of the Dutch National elections Swiss EU correspondent Christoph Nufer is in The Hague cover the voting, to give live comments on the expectations and to analyse the first results after the exit polls for broadcasts of the news program Tagesschau. For… 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

After it turns out that the Dutch national elections will be a fight between the liberal party VVD and the social democrat party PvdA, the Swiss news program Tagesschau covers ‘Het Lagerhuis’ (House of Commons) a very popular life Dutch debate program where a mix… 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

To cover the Dutch local elections Europe correspondent Christof Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau. Christof attends a political radio debate in the Hague and interviews a local politician from… Read More

In Switzerland a new chef of the Swiss Post is taken on to modernise the system. The Swiss were too late with privatising and the Dutch postal company TNT Express is portrayed for the Swiss public TV program Rundschau as an example of successful innovation… Read More

After the failed attack on flight 253 landing in Detroit, the Dutch decided to use body scanners to scan all passengers leaving for the US. Besides the body scanners that were already tested, the Dutch authorities orders 20 extra high tech scanners. The background reportage… 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

The federal initiative “against the construction of minarets” from a a group of right wing politicians, mainly from the Swiss People’s Party, the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland and the Egerkinger Komittee (“Egerkingen Committee”), was a successful populist referendum initiative in Switzerland to prevent 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