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Nobel Peace Prize 2012 awarded to the European Union

On Friday the 12  of October, Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt congratulated 500 million Europeans on the European Union being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Committee writes in its motivation: "The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe."