ESB fékk friðarverðlaun Nóbels

Evrópusambandið, ESB, hlaut í dag friðarverðlaun Nóbels, við hátíðlega athöfn í Osló í dag. Í umsögn dómnefndar segir (afsakið enskuna) : "The EU’s most important achievement, according to the committee, has been "the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights".

The work of the EU represents "fraternity between nations" and amounts to a form of the "peace congresses" cited by Alfred Nobel as criteria for the Peace Prize in his 1895 will."

Hér má sjá upptöku af athöfninni í Osló.