STOCKHOLM — Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have contested the awarding of this year’s prize to the European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc contradicts the values associated with the prize because it relies on military force to ensure security.
In an open letter to the Nobel Foundation, Tutu of South Africa, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina demanded that the prize money of 8 million kronor ($1.2 million) not be paid out this year.
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Why not give the peace prize to the EU? It became a meaningless prize when Barack Obama, the drone king, received the award just for being elected POTUS.