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EU wins Nobel Peace Prize

• Reuters By Balazs Koranyi and Victoria Klesty
 

The award served that the bloc had largely brought peace to a continent which tore itself apart in two world wars in which tens of millions died.

 

The EU has transformed most of Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace," Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award in Oslo.

 

"The EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest. The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to focus on what it sees as the EU's most important result: the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights," he said.


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