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15.01.2004 / 00:00 CET
  • Having been literally under fire last week, with explosive devices sent to prominent MEPs, the European Parliament has been under attack again...this time by water. Leaks from a kitchen poured into the hemicycle at Strasbourg, soaking some 50 seats.
    But things have a way of levelling out in politics – and the bad luck has been shared around. For while the conservatives received two letter bombs (one each sent to European People's Party leader Hans-Gert Pöttering and Spanish MEP José Ignacio Salafranca), it was the socialist seats that got a soaking. Now that's democracy in action.

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