A lawyer shot dead in the street, a journalist murdered in the center of Amsterdam – in the Netherlands, a drug mafia has developed around the cocaine trade in recent years, earning billions and seemingly stopping at nothing. The murder of crime journalist Peter R…. Read More

The Dutch organisation Social Consultation on Payments advises to implement nationwide rounding off cash payments at 5 euro cents. This advice follows the results of the Eurocent Rounding Trial, which took place in the city Woerden from 26 April to 6 June 2004. Woerden is… Read More

The talk show Hart aber Fair from the German federal state broadcaster WDR is organising an episode about the present euthanasia legislation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. The editors of the program are looking for specialised and experienced Dutch and Belgian studio guests for… Read More

On the 8th of May 2002 the UEFA cup final is organised in the football stadium the “Kuip” (the tub) in Rotterdam. The Dutch football club Feyenoord managed to reach the final and is very excited because the club is based in Rotterdam. The opponent… Read More

Do the players of the Dutch national football-team know the anthem? Do the ‘orange’ fans know them? Watching the training of the Dutch team preparing for the test match Holland – Nigeria . Interviewing the players on the singing of the hymne before the match…. Read More

The special ‘Hit and run Container-team’ (HARC team) comb the gigantic Rotterdam harbour for drugs and other illegal drugs. They search containers and ships with means of dogs and modern observation techniques and high-tech scan equipment. A reportage following the HARC team searching containers and… Read More

Abortion is a daily practice in the Netherlands. It is even said that is is all far to easy. Especially new ethnic minorities visit the clinics regularly. Dutch Minister of Health Els Borst: ‘In special cases abortion is permitted and okay, even when the mother… Read More

Between 1949 and 1987 artists in the Netherlands received subsidies for delivering their art to the Dutch state. At the start of the, so called Visual Artists Arrangement (BKR), around 200 artists made use of the regulation. At the end of the wild sixties artists… Read More

German Hardliners against Dutch liberal specialist: a live discussion in Amsterdam about the Dutch liberal drug policy in an European context for the WDR talk show program 1000 Herz. A German Christian democrat and a concerned mother traveled to Amsterdam to join a discussion with… Read More