Since a few years some Dutch municipalities want to start experiments with a basic income, but although legislation has been adjusted, the ministry of Social Affairs does not permit experiments to start yet. TF1 is planning a news reportage about this topic and wants to… Read More

On June 23 a referendum will be held the United Kingdom to decide if it will leave the European Union. French senior international correspondent Guillaume Debre from the first French TV channel TF1 visits the Dutch city Maastricht to find out how Euro sceptic the… Read More

The first French TV channel TF1 produces a series of travel reportages to show that it is possible to visit cities in Europe for a affordable price. In Amsterdam reporter Axel Cariou rents a bike, visits de Rijksmuseum, some traditional cafes and the daily Albert… Read More

For a reportage to be broadcasted on Valentine’s Day, the news program from the first French TV channel TF1 produces a reportage about the Flora Holland flower auction in Aalsmeer. French buyers are portrayed while they check the quality of the flowers. They explain how… Read More

Hungry, homeless young boys in the Central African Republic were forced by French UN soldiers to perform sex acts on them in return for food or money. Sources close to the case said UN Aid worker Anders Kompass passed the document to the French authorities… Read More

Because of huge overpopulation and the rise of the number of suicides in French jails, a TV crew from TF1 news travels to the Netherlands and to Belgium to check out the jail systems in these two European states and how they work in practice…. Read More

Preceding the Dutch national elections, reporter Françoise-Marie Morel from the first French TV channel TF1 travels to the Netherlands to produce a reportage for the news program about what role the strict immigration policy plays in the upcoming elections. Françoise-Marie Morel meets a Dutch Moroccan… Read More

In France the number of people arriving with balls of cocaine in their stomach is increasing dramatically. The Dutch already have years of experience with this kind of small scale cocaine smuggling. They have special jails with special toilets to collect the balls of cocaine…. Read More

On 11 March 2006, Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milošević was found dead in his prison cell in the UN war crimes tribunal’s detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague, Netherlands. After the death of Milošević the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia… Read More

As bird flu virus spreads across the earth and even people die from it, The Netherlands is still free from the virus. In 2003 the Dutch already experienced a severe outbreak and although bird flu is nearby the Dutch still do not have any bird… Read More

After a possible early work of Vincent van Gogh pops up in France, the Dutch Van Gogh museum does not want to give the painting an authenticity certificate. It turns out that there are many more people with possible early work from ‘Vincent’ that are… Read More

While there are bird flu virus outbreaks everywhere in the world, and even takes lives in Asia, a crew from the news program from the French first TV broadcaster TF1 travel to the Netherlands to check out how the Dutch successfully managed to fight the… Read More