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SwissInfo
| 7 months ago
Swiss analysts say they were surprised by the decision but found it a well-deserved reminder of the body's accomplishments. I think it makes sense if the (Nobel committee) is trying to state that it's important to underline all that the EU stands for,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Here is a look at the European Union, which was awarded the Nobel Prize on Friday. Origins The EU represented an attempt to integrate Europe in the aftermath of World War Two. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: the idea being that...
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The independent
| 7 months ago
The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union has predictably deepened the divide between europhiles and europhobes. The irony of the honour being bestowed in the midst of one of the EU's worst crises and at a time of deep rifts...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Despite conflicts within EU countries, such as the Basque insurgency, no two member states have ever gone to war against one another. Photograph: Rafa Rivas/AFP/Getty Images The European Union , pronounced Herman Van Rompuy, the nearest the body has...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
bad timing all round Given the EU's current crises, both existential and economic, the Nobel committee could have chosen a better moment Why give the EU the Nobel peace prize now, rather than when it successfully expanded into the former Soviet Union?
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News 24
| 7 months ago
The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the crisis-torn EU on Friday sparked a stunned Twitter backlash, many reacting with derision and anger, although some netizens came to its defence. "Let's forget about #Malala & peers, brave community...
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New Statesman
| 7 months ago
The committee responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize is a close-knit Norwegian elite, and we will probably never know exactly how it arrived at its decision to award the 2012 prize to the European Union ...At the heart of the process must...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
The prize, along with literature, physics and medicine honors, was created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901. The EU, headquartered in Brussels, became the 21st organization to win the peace prize. It beat out 188 people...
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Ansa
| 7 months ago
Brussels, October 12 The European Union has said on Friday that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a permanent bailout fund aimed at helping euro nations control the costs of public borrowing, may be able to provide direct funding to banks when...
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Dutch News
| 7 months ago
Labour leader Diederik Samsom, currently in talks with Rutte on forming a new coalition government, said the award is 'a great honour'. However, the award has implications for this generation of politicians, he said. 'They know what is at stake'.
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Arizona Republic
| 7 months ago
While some Europeans swelled with pride after the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, howls of derision erupted from the continent's large band of skeptics. To many in the 27-nation bloc, the EU is an unwieldy and unloved agglomeration overseen...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman launches plan to put West German and French coal and steel industries under single authority, aiming to make war between the two countries "materially impossible"...Six founding nations - France, Germany, Italy,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union (EU) triggered jubilation here in the EU resident mission with its envoy saying it was "a source of great pride" for all those who work for the 27-nation organisation. "The award of the 2012 Nobel...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
AFP European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso,(L), receives flowers from Norway's Ambassador to the EU Atle Leikvoll after the European Union was awarded the 2012 Nobel peace prize, at the EU Commission headquarter in Brussels on...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
What happens when a person walks around carrying a cup of coffee? A Russian scientist has won an Ig Nobel Prize for finding the answer. The prizes are a parody of the real Nobel Prizes, and are awarded to make people laugh, and then think. EU's Nobel...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
The EU has been recognised for six decades of work advancing peace in Europe...Photograph: AP Why it's a great idea The deficit in the Eurozone has just been reduced by 923,680 euros. There is an offchance the rioting in Athens and Madrid may stop...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 7 months ago
The Nobel Peace Prize went to the European Union for its post-1945 promotion of peace and democracy on a continent where war had been the norm for hundreds of years. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's Peace Prize to the European Union ,...
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The Economic Times
| 7 months ago
Euro zone countries should consider clubbing together to borrow as well as paying into a central budget that could be used to help struggling countries, according to a report prepared by senior European officials ahead of a meeting of leaders. The...
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Bogota Bulletin
| 7 months ago
Norway (AP) The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering peace on a continent ravaged by war, yet the Norwegian prize jury warned Friday that the financial crisis challenging the bloc's unity could lead to a return to "extremism and...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Nigel Farage joked he "would struggle" to accept the award in the unlikely event he was asked to collect it, as he spoke to the Guardian's Nick Watt with Jo Coburn on the Daily Politics. The committee said the EU had helped to transform Europe "from...
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B92
| 7 months ago
The European Union won this years Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo-based Nobel Committee announced on Friday. The EU won the award for its historic role in uniting the continent and its merits in strengthening peace, reconciliation and protection of democracy...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
13 am Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press European flags flew at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Friday. Europe was on Friday invited to count its blessings, set its present difficulties aside, and celebrate a legacy of six...
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MarketWatch
| 7 months ago
But the shocking decision to award the Peace Prize to the European Union at this point in its history is more likely to provoke bitter laughter than a somber reflection on the achievements of European integration. Members of extreme right party...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
The EU was awarded the prize in recognition of "over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe", and becomes the 25th institution to receive the prize since its creation in 1901. The...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Brussels The European commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, left, receives flowers from the Nowegian ambassador Atle Leikvoll. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA In a decision that many saw as paradoxical given the multiple frictions and disputes...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
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News 24
| 7 months ago
France's Jacques Delors, the powerful former European Commission chief, said the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union on Friday would encourage countries of the bloc to deepen their co-operation despite crises along the way. "Europe...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
Improvised lighting, barely strong enough to illuminate the cavern, shows children sitting, legs crossed, on the bare floor. They are calling out boisterously, raising their hands eagerly, clamoring to answer questions. These are some of the students...
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Daily Nation
| 7 months ago
The Nobel peace prize comes at a testing time for the European Union which has brought the continent peace and democracy for over half a century but is struggling to weather the euro debt crisis. "It is an honour that should have come a long time ago,...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Story In the inter-war years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee made several awards to persons who were seeking reconciliation between Germany and France...The dreadful suffering in World War II demonstrated the need for a new Europe. Over a seventy-year...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press Published Friday, Oct. 12 2012, 6:42 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Oct. 12 2012, 6:45 AM EDT Some reaction to the European Union being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday: The stabilizing part played by the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of its contribution to promoting peace and harmony on a continent that gave rise to two devastating world wars in the past century. The prestigious award offers a morale boost for...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, an award seen as morale boost for the bloc as it struggles to resolve its debt crisis. Following are reactions...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
12 October 2012 The European Union was today awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, despite being in the grip of an economic crisis which has sparked angry protests across the continent. The extraordinary decision was announced at a ceremony in Norway, where...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
Since 1945, that reconciliation has become a reality," the committee said in a statement. The European idea was born out of the suffering of the bloodiest war in human memory, which was the last conflict in a series of three fought between the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The crisis-torn European Union will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the usually well-informed Norwegian public broadcaster NRK reported an hour before Friday's widely anticipated announcement. "The EU is this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,...
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Star Tribune
| 7 months ago
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe an award given even though the bloc is struggling with its biggest crisis since it was created in the 1950s. The Norwegian prize committee...
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Associated Press
| 7 months ago
The EU received the award for what the Norwegian prize committee said were six decades of contributions "to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" after two devastating world wars in the 20th century. The...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 7 months ago
Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland. --- "The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, on Twitter. --- "I think it's an absolute disgrace...At a time...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
Berlin Wall; award seen as a morale boost for bloc amid debt crisis. The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, an award seen as a morale boost for the...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
46 Nobel Committee Chairman has praised the 27-nation EU for rebuilding after World War II [AFP] The crisis-torn European Union has been bestowed with this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced.
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Washington Post
| 7 months ago
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was bestowed Friday on the European Union, a 27-nation body rooted in the post-World War II economic and political unification of the region that, because of the continent's debt crisis, is facing its biggest crisis since...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
49 Zeenews Bureau Oslo: The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to European Union. The Norwegian Nobel Committee that awards the prize had 231 individuals and organisations on its top-secret list. EU was awarded the Peace Prize for for its...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
The EU has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, as the bloc faces a deepening debt crisis. The committee praised the 27-nation EU for rebuilding after World War Two and for its role in spreading stability to...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Thorbjoern Jagland, Norwegian Nobel Committee: "Since 1945 reconciliation has become a reality" The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe. The committee said the EU had helped to...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
The EU has been a key in transforming Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace," Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award in Oslo. "This is a message to Europe to do everything they can to secure what they've...
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CNN
| 7 months ago
Once at the Los Angeles science museum, the shuttle, which had its first launch in 1992, will be on display for posterity...All four shuttles have been permanently retired from service. Named for the first ship commanded by British explorer James...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
Eyder Peralta The Norwegian Nobel Committee has bestowed its prestigious Peace Prize upon the European Union for what it says is a six decade contribution "to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" In its...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 7 months ago
The Associated Press Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1998: --- - 2012: The European Union. - 2011: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. - 2010: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. -...
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USA Today
| 7 months ago
Norway (AP) The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe, in the midst of the union's biggest crisis since its creation in the 1950s. The Norwegian prize committee said the EU...
