To fight overpopulation in French jails, prime minister Michel Barnier wants to introduce short prison sentences and to make greater use of community service, administrative fines and fixed penalties for criminal offences. The Netherlands has a lot of experience with short and alternative community sentences… Read More

For the first time since the Second World War, the Netherlands has implemented a curfew as one of the corona virus measures. A decision that triggered riots in the country’s largest cities: Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Rotterdam. In a working-class district of Rotterdam, the traces of… Read More

Why a do the Dutch implemented a so called intelligent lockdown and not a total lock down during the corona crisis? What is an intelligent lock down and how does it work in practice? TF1 reporter Georges Brenier comes to the Netherlands to find out…. Read More

Over the last years there is an increase of organised heavy crime in the Netherlands. Large shipments of cocaine are intercepted in the harbor of Rotterdam, numerous illegal synthetic drugs laboratories are discovered in the south of the country and many liquidations take place in… Read More

The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world, thanks to the enormous greenhouse sector. TF1 Our team visited these spectacular oceans of glass greenhouses even visible from satellites. It is the equivalent of the size of a city like Paris… Read More

Dutch social housing organisations are private, non-profit enterprises that pursue social goals within a strict framework of national laws and regulations. They involve local government, tenants and other stakeholders in their policies and are accountable to society. The principal target group are low-income households (e.g…. Read More

Because the French hospitals are overwhelmed by patients, the personnel of intensive care departments go on strike. In the Netherlands patients first have to go to family doctor centers or are often even sent to family doctors departments in hospitals to relieve the intensive care… Read More

A bill to combat sexist and sexual violence will be presented to the French Council of Ministers on Wednesday 21 March 2018. The new text provides for a fine of ninety euros for ‘sexist contempt’, or street harassment. But what are our European neighbours doing… Read More

Over the last years many Dutch farmers have t stop because there is no successor. At the same time, there are many young people who really want to become farmers, or who like to work with at an agricultural company or want to enter into… Read More

The city of Amsterdam is leading the world in ending the obesity epidemic, thanks to a radical and wide-reaching program which is getting results even among the poorest communities that are hardest to reach. The program appears to be succeeding by hitting multiple targets at… Read More

After the United States, The Dutch are the 2nd largest agricultural exporters in the world. TF1 reporter Julien Beaumont wants to find out how this tiny country is feeding the world and what can be learned from the approach to find ways to keep on… Read More

TF1 reporter Liseron Boudoul is assigned to create a news reportage about the upcoming Dutch general elections. She visits campaigning activities of Geert Wilders and other PVV politicians in the small town Valkenburg in the far south of the country. Liseron Boudoul interviews Geert Wilders… Read More