Comment by Sujan

Exactly. It's pure spin, the content stayed exactly the same, they just replaced some words. Apparently done well enough, to confuse even Spiegel Online.

Here is some reporting on it:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%...

http://netzpolitik.org/2013/spiegel-online-ente-union-gibt-v... (German)