NOBEL
PEACE PRIZE-2012 TO
EUROPEAN UNION
യൂറോപ്പ്യന് യൂണിയനാണ് ഈ വര്ഷത്തെ(2012) സമാധാനത്തിനുള്ള നോബല് സമ്മാനം. രണ്ടാം ലോകമഹായുദ്ധം കനത്ത ആഘാതമേല്പ്പിച്ച വന്കരയില് അരനൂറ്റാണ്ടുകാലം സമാധാനാന്തരീക്ഷം നിലനിര്ത്തുന്നതില് വഹിച്ച നിര്ണായകപങ്ക് കണക്കിലെടുത്താണ് യൂറോപ്പ്യന് യൂണിയനെ സ്വീഡിഷ് അക്കാദമി പുരസ്കാരം കൊണ്ട് ആദരിച്ചത്.
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize
on Friday,12th October,2012, for its historic role in uniting the
continent in an award meant as a morale boost for the bloc as it struggles to
resolve its debt crisis. 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
achieved and move forward," Jagland said, saying it was a reminder of what
would be lost "if the union is allowed to collapse".
He praised the 27-nation EU for rebuilding after World War Two and for its role in spreading stability after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. The prize, worth $1.2 million, will be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10. The decision by the five-member panel, led by Jagland who is also Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, was unanimous. The EU won from a field of 231 candidates including Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation.
But the EU is mired in crisis with strains on the euro, the common currency shared by 17 nations. The prize was a surprise given the EU's current woes. And many Norwegians are bitterly opposed to the EU, seeing it as a threat to the sovereignty of nation states. "I find this absurd," the leader of Norway's anti-EU membership organisation Heming Olaussen told NRK. "In Latin America and other parts of the world they will view this quite differently than they will from Brussels. The union is a trade bloc that contributes to keeping many countries in poverty." Norway, the home of the peace prize, has voted "no" twice to joining the EU, in 1972 and 1994. The country has prospered outside the EU, partly thanks to huge oil and gas resources. The five-member committee is appointed by parliament, where parties are deeply split over EU membership. Jagland has long favoured EU membership. Janne Haaland Matlary, Professor of International Politics at the Oslo University, who has twice nominated the EU for the prize, praised the award. "The European Union has been the most effective creator of peace in the world since its inception with the coal and steel union in the 1950s," she told Reuters. "Today it is unthinkable with military conflict between members in the EU."
He praised the 27-nation EU for rebuilding after World War Two and for its role in spreading stability after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. The prize, worth $1.2 million, will be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10. The decision by the five-member panel, led by Jagland who is also Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, was unanimous. The EU won from a field of 231 candidates including Russian dissidents and religious leaders working for Muslim-Christian reconciliation.
But the EU is mired in crisis with strains on the euro, the common currency shared by 17 nations. The prize was a surprise given the EU's current woes. And many Norwegians are bitterly opposed to the EU, seeing it as a threat to the sovereignty of nation states. "I find this absurd," the leader of Norway's anti-EU membership organisation Heming Olaussen told NRK. "In Latin America and other parts of the world they will view this quite differently than they will from Brussels. The union is a trade bloc that contributes to keeping many countries in poverty." Norway, the home of the peace prize, has voted "no" twice to joining the EU, in 1972 and 1994. The country has prospered outside the EU, partly thanks to huge oil and gas resources. The five-member committee is appointed by parliament, where parties are deeply split over EU membership. Jagland has long favoured EU membership. Janne Haaland Matlary, Professor of International Politics at the Oslo University, who has twice nominated the EU for the prize, praised the award. "The European Union has been the most effective creator of peace in the world since its inception with the coal and steel union in the 1950s," she told Reuters. "Today it is unthinkable with military conflict between members in the EU."
Prof. John Kurakar
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