Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Vince Cable famously remarked on the transformation of Gordon from Stalin into Mr Bean. In Spain Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is also caricatured as a Mr Bean look-a-like.   Spain has this year assumed the presidency of the EU and set up as website, www.eu2010.es promoting itself. Yesterday an unidentified hacker replaced Zapatero’s picture [...]  

A hacker hijacked Spain's official website for its presidency of the European Union, inserting a large smiling picture of the comic character Mr Bean. The supposed resemblance of the slapstick character played by Rowan Atkinson to Spain's Socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has been a running joke in Spain for years. A recent edition of El Pais newspaper printed a cartoon depicting Mr Zapatero as Mr Bean above an article...  

Madrid - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country took over the rotating European Union presidency on January 1, will create a group of veteran experts to advise him on how to lift the EU out of its economic crisis, the ...  

Madrid/Stockholm - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called for stronger efforts to fight the still smouldering world economic crisis Friday, as Spain took on the mantle of the European Union presidency . Achieving economic recovery ...  

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero expressed Spanish commitment to support the reunification process of the Cyprus question during their term of presidency and claimed that he agreed with the Cypriot President, Dimitri Hristofias ...  

MADRID (AFP) – Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero takes over the rotating EU presidency on January 1 hoping that the international spotlight will reverse a slump in his popularity caused by the economic crisis . With Spain's ...  

NICOSIA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday set out his country's priorities as next European Union presidency after talks in Nicosia with Cyprus President Demetris Christofias. Zapatero said that during ...  

Copenhagen, Dec 18 (EFE) Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has asked the US and China not to let other countries down “on this historic occasion” of the climate summit in Copenhagen and urged them to not avoid their “responsibility to the world”. Zapatero said the presence of almost 120 world leaders at the meeting [...]  

MADRID (AP)—Spain's prime minister has honored the Davis Cup-winning team in a ceremony at his official residence. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero praised the players Monday for successfully defending the title after completing a 5-0 victory over the Czech Republic in the final on Sunday. Zapatero says the country's overall sporting success has coincided with a period of dominance in tennis. Rafael Nadal opened the best-of-five series on indoor...  

Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (left) held a reception for Spain's back-to-back Davis Cup champions. MADRID (AP) -- Spain's prime minister has honored the Davis Cup-winning team in a ceremony at his official residence. Jose Luis ...  

MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Wednesday pledged to tackle long-awaited labor-market reforms as new data showed one of Europe's worst unemployment crises continues to deepen. "I think the overhaul of our ...  

The Vice President spoke to Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today to discuss President Obama’s decision on the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The Vice President thanked President Zapatero for Spain’s important contributions to the NATO mission in Afghanistan, and encouraged continued Spanish support for this mission in the future.  

Cairo, Nov 24, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero acknowledged here Tuesday the lack of any recent progress in the Middle East peace process but said that neither has it been abandoned, and so urged that ...  

Somali pirates have released a Spanish tuna trawler and its crew of 36 which they seized over a month ago in the Indian Ocean, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Tuesday. "I can confirm that the Alakrana fishing trawler is ...  

Madrid - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has informed the conservative opposition about the "possible release" of Spanish fishermen held by Somali pirates since October 2, an opposition spokeswoman said Tuesday. Zapatero contacted ...