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The countries of northern Europe are always the ones who behave best. The exception is Netherlands (12th), which has fallen 12 places because it kept two Telegraaf journalists in custody for two days for refusing to reveal their sources to the judicial authorities.

The 2007 Reporters sans frontières – Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index is out. In 2006 the Netherlands, as it did in 2005, shared first place with several other (mostly scandinavian) Northern European countries. And we now dropped 12 places. Sjeesj, if we’re not careful we’ll end up in the 40’s range, with the US, who is doing better than last year, yet nowhere near back to its starting place in 2002 (17th place).