EU wins Nobel Peace prize

[jake-the-peg]

And not before time in my view!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-19921072

I think some on this site may require resussitation after reading this so - let's see - who would you rather it have gone to?

[FredPuli43]

Yes, but what will they do with the prize money?

[McMouse]

Been really quiet since WW2 in Europe..........apart from

1944–1956 Guerilla war in the Baltic states
1945–1949 Greek Civil War
1953 Uprising in East Germany
1956 Uprising in Poznań
1956 Hungarian Revolution
1956–1962 Operation Harvest
1958 First Cod War
1959–2011 Basque Conflict
1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968–1998 The Troubles
1970–1984 Unrest in Italy
1972–1973 Second Cod War
1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1975-1976 Third Cod War
1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
1989 Romanian Revolution
1991 Ten-Day War
1991–1992 South Ossetian War of Independence
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992 War of Transnistria
1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict
1992–1993 First War in Abkhazia
1992–1995 Bosnian War
1993 Cherbourg incident
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1997 Unrest in Albania
1998–1999 Kosovo War
1998–present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
1998 Second War in Abkhazia
1999 Dagestan War
1999–2009 Second Chechen War
1999–2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
[edit]21st century

2001 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
2002 Perejil Island crisis
2004 Unrest in Kosovo
2004 Adjara crisis
2007–present Civil war in Ingushetia
2008 Unrest in Kosovo
2008 War in South Ossetia
2009–present Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2011–present Kosovo–Serbia border clashes

[ichkeria]

Most of those conflicts of course refer to places well out of bounds to the EU.
We shouldn't take the relative peace in Western Europe for granted.
It's interesting that the report mentions Croatia, a country looking forward to membership of the EU but which 20 years ago was torn by war.
And Serbia may soon join too.

But as you say, there'll be much spluttering at the back I would think :-)

[Thatcherite]

Yes, I congratulate the EU they have found a way of subjugating nations by using their own politcian's liking for the gravy train. I salute the complexity of the con trick.

[tonyav]

Tony Blair.

[youngmafbog]

Its only because Germany has managed to conquer Europe by stealth rather than the usual Tank method.

And we'll see how long the peace lasts given the uprising in Greece the other day.

[bazwillrun]

how exactly has the EU kept the peace in Europe, I would have thought NATO has done more to keep the peace than the eu trough followers, most of the countries are now to frikkin poor to go to war thanks to the eu and some of its policies

[zebo]

Have they stopped giving a Nobel Prize for Economics then? I can think of a number of deserving Mediterranean countries for that one!

[sandyRoe]

There was a Mo won the literature prize. Sees to be a year for short names.

[ABerrant]

Perhaps an accurate interpretation of "Europe's" role in keeping peace within its own borders, however the Nobel Peace Prize has been a mostly worthless accolade since the 1973 award to warmonger Henry Kissinger, and further devalued by the baffling 2009 award to President Obama when you consider the nomination deadline for the 2009 award was 2 weeks after Obama took office.

[pdq1]

Can't Obama win it for the second time? If Romney gets in gawd help the planet with his swashbuckling ideas about invading Iran. He's just like Bush MK II.

[youngmafbog]

Romney wont get in. But dont think Iran wont kick off. Obama alread has aircraft carries in the Straits ready. And where would you expect a trident to be aiming right now ?

[emmie]

someone who actually deserves it.

[New Judge]

I've taken no notice of the Nobel Peace prize since 1978 when it was awarded to Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. I could not stop laughing for the best part of a week and my sides hurt more than was good for me.

The suggestion that the European Union has been instrumental in maintaining peace in Europe is equally laughable. It has done more to create tensions between and within nations than just about anything else. Peace has prevailed within Europe despite the EU, not because of it. Whether this will be maintained with Germany's continued economic occupation of the smaller states remains to be seen.

[ludwig]

New Judge
// I've taken no notice of the Nobel Peace prize since 1978 when it was awarded to Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin //

You're a bit late NJ. most people gave up when Kissinger won it.
It's actually become a bit of a joke award, like the Turner prize.

[emmie]

NJ, some have just turned their faces away to the tensions, this is not something that is going to go away. the young in many of European countries are not happy with the status quo, and as we have seen in Spain, Greece are not going to just roll over to the juggernaut that is a Federalist state, led by Germany. who have the money, the power and the wherewithal to dictate terms to all. Greece is partly suffering because of it's own stupidity, but has not been helped at all by Germany..
as they say watch this space.

[ludwig]

I think this could be the new EU motto:

'The EU - Preventing world wars since 1945'

[petal54]

is the nobel peace prize of more worth these days than being voted 'rear of the year'?

[naomi24]

Or 'EU .... Probably the best ........ '

[lady-janine]

beyond my comprehension.