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EU wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize - 14 January 2013 - Video
How a Nobel Peace Prize winner should approach Putin - 20 December 2012 - Opinion

The European Union - winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize - should take a strong stand against the ongoing destruction of civil society in Russia at the summit with Vladimir Putin,  write Adam Bodnar and Dominika Bychawska-Siniarska.

The Council’s brazen Nobel fraud - 18 December 2012 - Opinion

The message of the EU Council’s Nobel Prize exhibition is a tribute to France's General de Gaulle, writes David Price who wonders: Is the Council now openly declaring it is a Bastion of Gaullism?

Nobel laureates told to ‘make good government in Europe’ - 10 December 2012 - News

As the heads of the three EU institutions collected the Nobel Peace Prize today (10 December) in Oslo, they were told that 'what this continent has achieved is truly fantastic,' but that more needed to be done to make good government win in Europe.

Why the Nobel Peace Prize should not be awarded to the EU - 06 December 2012 - Opinion

Was the Nobel Prize Foundation wrong to award its prize to the European Union? Yes, argues David Price. The prize should have gone long ago to the European Community and Robert Schuman, its founder.

Back to basics in the EU - 08 November 2012 - Opinion

EU citizens feel insecure and that their voices aren't reaching the ears of their political leaders despite sometimes violent demonstrations. Desperation is growing in several EU countries, says Gilbert Fayl.

The EU’s Nobel Peace Prize: Better late than never - 15 October 2012 - Opinion

People like Monnet, Schuman, Altiero Spinelli, Paul-Henri Spaak, Max Kohnstamm, Emile Noël, and Konrad Adenauer, amongst others, were all disappointingly overlooked by the Nobel Committee at the time of the EU’s genesis. Posthumously, this is their Nobel Peace Prize, argues Michael J. Geary.

EU awarded Nobel Peace Prize for reconciling war-torn continent - 12 October 2012 - News

The European Union has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its long-term role in uniting the continent, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday (12 October). The award is already being seen as a morale boost for the bloc as it struggles to resolve its debt crisis. EurActiv brings you Twitter reactions live.

EU among possible Nobel Prize winners - 12 October 2012 - News

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee announces its 2012 laureate today (12 October), with prize watchers favoring east European dissidents, the European Union itself or religious leaders working on Muslim-Christian reconciliation.

Foreign Minister: Bridges symbolise change for Ukrainians - 15 December 2010 - Interview

To illustrate the changes in Ukraine under its new leadership, the country's foreign minister, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, referred to three bridges in Kyiv, the construction of which had been stagnating for the past five years. Now people can see that they are actually being built, he told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.

Chinese Nobel boycott divides EU's 'inner circle' - 09 December 2010 - News

EU candidate country Serbia and four other nations on the Union's periphery – Ukraine, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco – have disappointed the European Commission by deciding to boycott a ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

EU 'bowed' to Chinese press standards at summit - 11 October 2010 - News

EU officials admitted their embarrassment after Brussels journalists vigorously protested over a cancelled press conference during last week's EU-China summit. The event was reportedly scrapped at the last minute because independent Chinese journalists risked upsetting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

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