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How Not to Start Your Turn at the Head of the EU’s Rotating Presidency

- January 7, 2010

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On January 1, 2010, Spain took over the “EU’s Rotating Presidency”:http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5070917,00.html. Shortly thereafter, hackers got into the “newly established website”:http://www.eu2010.es/en/index.html?idioma=en of the Spanish presidency and replaced the picture of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero with one of Rowan Atkinson’s famous Mr. Bean. The resemblence between the two has “long been noted in Spain”:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/6933891/Mr-Bean-briefly-stands-in-for-Zapatero-on-Spains-official-EU-presidency-website.html. We’ll let you be the judge:

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