EU receives 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and president of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz collected the award during a ceremony at Oslo’s City Hall.

Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the audience that in the current economic crisis “the political framework in which the union is rooted is more important than ever”.

The committee’s decision has sparked public protests and drawn a barrage of criticism from peace activists and former winners of the prize.


Members of 50 organizations held a torchlight march against the Nobel committee’s move in Oslo on Sunday.

Three Peace Prize laureates have also said that the 27-nation bloc contradicts the values associated with the prize because it relies on military force to ensure security.

The trio—South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina—demanded that the USD 1.2-million prize money not be paid this year.

Amnesty International warned about the growing xenophobia and intolerance in Europe on Monday saying that EU leaders should not “bask in the glow of the prize.”

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