Nobel Peace Prize 2012 to European Union (EU)

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Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday (12th October 2012) has announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 is to be awarded to the European Union (EU). The European Union won this prestegious prize  because The union and its forerunners have for over six decades, contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. 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."

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