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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel Peace Prize winners say European Union is not worthy of being given the award
Desmond Tutu has contested the decision to award the prize to the European Union in an open letter to the Nobel Committee
Fellow Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel also signed the letter, which insisted the EU was not a 'champion of peace'
The trio said the $1.2million prize money should not be paid out to the bloc, which they claim contradicts the values associated with the prize
The decision to award the prize to the EU in a year marked by rioting amid the ongoing Eurozone crisis has already been widely derided
Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have blasted the decision to give this year’s award to the European Union.
In an open letter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Northern Ireland’s Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina say that the EU is ‘clearly not one of the “champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind’ when he created the prize in 1895.
They insist the 27-nation bloc’s values do not match those associated with the prize, and say the prize money of £750,000 should be withheld.
Contesting: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of three former winners contesting the decision to give the 2012 award to the EU
Contesting: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of three former winners contesting the decision to give the 2012 award to the EU
Stating that the EU condones ‘security based on military force and waging wars rather than insisting on the need for an alternative approach’, they add that it has failed to ‘realise Nobel’s demilitarised global peace order’.
‘The Norwegian Nobel committee has redefined and remodelled the prize in a manner that is not consistent with the law,’ their letter asserts, adding that the committee should respect the original wishes of the prize’s founder, who died in 1896.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241059/Nobel-Peace-Prize-Archbishop-Desmond-Tutu-laureates-say-European-Union-worthy-given-award.html#ixzz2DovA5TRO
Desmond Tutu has contested the decision to award the prize to the European Union in an open letter to the Nobel Committee
Fellow Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel also signed the letter, which insisted the EU was not a 'champion of peace'
The trio said the $1.2million prize money should not be paid out to the bloc, which they claim contradicts the values associated with the prize
The decision to award the prize to the EU in a year marked by rioting amid the ongoing Eurozone crisis has already been widely derided
Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have blasted the decision to give this year’s award to the European Union.
In an open letter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Northern Ireland’s Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina say that the EU is ‘clearly not one of the “champions of peace” Alfred Nobel had in mind’ when he created the prize in 1895.
They insist the 27-nation bloc’s values do not match those associated with the prize, and say the prize money of £750,000 should be withheld.
Contesting: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of three former winners contesting the decision to give the 2012 award to the EU
Contesting: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of three former winners contesting the decision to give the 2012 award to the EU
Stating that the EU condones ‘security based on military force and waging wars rather than insisting on the need for an alternative approach’, they add that it has failed to ‘realise Nobel’s demilitarised global peace order’.
‘The Norwegian Nobel committee has redefined and remodelled the prize in a manner that is not consistent with the law,’ their letter asserts, adding that the committee should respect the original wishes of the prize’s founder, who died in 1896.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241059/Nobel-Peace-Prize-Archbishop-Desmond-Tutu-laureates-say-European-Union-worthy-given-award.html#ixzz2DovA5TRO
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