The European market leader in navigation systems TomTom introduces a new traffic information system in Switzerland called HD traffic. TomTom already introduced the service a year before in the Netherlands. By using different traffic data streams and a signals of mobile phones of motorists the… Read More

The Dutch football fans left an overwhelming impression in Bern during the European Football championships. After the orange invasion the news program from the Swiss public TV broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen want to make a report about the Dutch football supporter culture. In a street in… Read More

On Mother’s day the Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to produce a background reportage for the TV program ’10 vor 0’ about the Dutch flower branch. During the extensive coverage at one the enormous… Read More

Carla Del Ponte, the ex-chief prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, has unleashed a storm of recrimination with allegations of a trade in human body parts in Kosovo and Albania after Nato bombed Serbia in 1999 in her book ‘Me and War criminals, The… Read More

Fitna, the controversial anti-Koran short film by anti-immigration Dutch MP Geert Wilders was finally released on the internet on Thursday evening the 27th of March. Most of the Dutch and foreign media report that the film is milder than expected and lacks surprises. No problems… Read More

Aquapol is an European partnership of ten countries for police work at inland waterways, on the seas and in seaports, aimed at advancing safety and fighting crime in Europe. In 2008 Aquapol’s presidency was given to the Netherlands. One of the areas of attention for… Read More

At the end of last year the Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders announced that he will produce a critical film about the Koran. The Dutch society and politics fear the consequences of a film that has not yet been launched. For a reportage for the… Read More

Since helping to die is legal in Switzerland a lot of foreigners travel to Switzerland to be helped to die. The neighbours of the locations where the dying takes place protest against the constant stream of corpses taken out in coffins. The organisations that helps… Read More

The Anne Frank tree is the horse-chestnut tree in the inner garden behind the Anne Frank House in the centre of Amsterdam. A tree that featured in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank described the tree from the annex, the building… Read More

For the first time in 40 years the Dutch, English and Germans expect an extremely heavy storm and high tide. The complete Dutch coast is monitored by dyke inspectors and the dams of the Delta Works, the Dutch Delta coast protection system are closed. For… Read More

More than 20 million toys made in China have been recalled worldwide over the past four months, because of potentially dangerous levels of lead or choking hazards due to small magnets. Some of these toys were manufactured using paints from unauthorized suppliers of paints with… Read More

It seems to be a trend, the establishments of ex-Muslim committees in Europe. With the German and English founders of these kinds of committees, the Dutch student Ashan Jami erects a Dutch committee of ex-Muslims in The Hague. For the reportage about ex-Muslim committees for… Read More