In November 2012 the European community was awarded the highest honor – The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize. Adoption of such solutions Norwegian committee to award the Nobel Prize highly appreciated the contribution of the EU to strengthen the peace of Europe. December 10, 2012 in Oslo, came for the premium: Herman Van Rompuy – President of the European Council, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso – European Commission President, and Martin Schulz – President of the European Parliament.
Is the EU deserve this award? Yes – said the EU itself. No! – I think more than 50% of the respondents of ordinary people in Russia.
Dr Henning Meyer,Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Editor of Social Europe Journal believes that the EU has earned the award, but it was still a lot of Poble in the Union.
A human rights activist from Germany Dmitrij Adamow believes that:
– Award in the entire European Union, I believe deserved. But if we take every European country alone or each individual policy in Europe, no one deserves awards. It’s like in sports: a highly rated sports team with a low rating of each member of the team.
Nobel Prize for the economic crisis in Europe, against human rights violations in the same Germany, France, it seems to me, can be seen as an incentive prize for lifting the spirit and nothing more. And Mr. Adamow, I think, is absolutely right. Each European country alone is not worthy of this award.
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The Eu has a very lousy score in terms of rights and democracy.
Internally, it does not take into account the needs and requirements of the many different peoples that make up its 500+ million population. Let us remember the continous call for referenda about the Lisbon Treaty in Denmark and other Member States, years ago, till voters, exhausted, voted the way the Eu establishment wanted. More recently, late september, Hermann van Rompuy, President of the Eu, clearly stated, in Cernobbio, that whatever the result of the oncoming political elections in Italy, the next Italian government must be what the Eu wants.
Externally, the Eu awarded the Peace Nobel Prize is the same Eu who bombed Serbia with enriched uranium bombs, back in the 1990s, and Lybya in more ecent times.
Really, there seems to be very little reason to award such a prize to the Eu!
It does not seem to me that there is any need to award such an honour to the EU. They do not seem to merit it. The Peace Price, in my estimation is awarded to an individual or corporate organization that has advanced some policy or action that in some way or other has advanced world peace in either their country(region) or globally. I do not see that the EU has met this criterion.
Only one example will suffice. Because the EU countries wanted to get rid of Gadaffi of Libyia, they secured the approval of UN to impose a “No Fly” zone in that country and systematically bombed that nation to rubbles, basing their action on the support of Arab League, whose economy they really control. In the meantime the nation is in financial trouble, trying to borrow from IMF to sustain their economy and try to reconstruct the devastated nation. Their oil is now flowing very freely to refineries in EU countries. Today there is misery, and anger in Libyia among most of their people.
One needs to be informed of anything the EU has done to advance the freedom and rights of other peoples globally without at the same time ensuring that their economy is safe and secure while those of “developing” nations are in ruins. If the argument is that the developing ntions are mired in corruption, one would like to know what effort was made by EU as a corporate body to stem it, in order to guarantee peace and progress in those countries.