Background
De Vries grew up in Zeeland and studied Law at the University of Amsterdam.
De Vries grew up in Zeeland and studied Law at the University of Amsterdam.
A few years later he finished a directors"s course at the New York Film Academy. He then studied Art History and Archeology at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
In 1999 he moved to Paris, where he worked for Prisma Presse. Since 2005 he is full-time journalist. De Vries currently is a news correspondent in France for RTL Nieuws.
He comments on French politics in the television-shows "Politics" or "The World This Week" on France24.
On June 26, 2012, he received the Prix de l’Initiative européenne from the fr:Maison de l"Europe de Paris for his journalistic work. On June 13, 2013, he received the "EuroNederlander Award 2013" from the European Movement Netherlands (EBN) for his "outstanding and constructive contribution to the European debate in the Netherlands".
