EU Receives 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

[struggle4progress]

Posted December 10th, 2012 at 2:30 pm (UTC-5)

The European Union has received this year's Nobel Peace Prize for turning Europe “from a continent of war to a continent of peace” in the six decades following World War Two.

Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland presented the award Monday to EU President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

The committee credited the 27-nation bloc for being a stabilizing player throughout the last 60 years that have seen Western and Eastern Europe rejoined following the break-up of the Soviet Union and the settling of ethnically based national conflicts ...

http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/12/10/eu-receives-2012-nobel-peace-prize-2/

[JaneyVee]

1. I think there probably is also a deeper subliminal reason they received the NPP.

[DonCoquixote]

2. The Nobel Peace prize is now not

a means of rewarding actual achievement, but the first little carrot they give to someone in the hope they continue to avoid nasty behaviour, it was that way for Obama, and is that way for the EU.