Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- European Parliament presidency - Martin Schulz urged to relinquish EP presidency in context of Commission presidency campaign
- GM maize authorisation - Commission insistence must be met with censure
- MFF/future EU budget - Final deal commits EU to a budget with no vision and no scope to redress this
- Lampedusa tragedy / EU Council
- NSA spying scandal - free trade agreement
- EU summit - A summit full of empty promises and words
- Multiannual Financial Framework - A bad deal and a breach of trust
- Greens visit to Athens - Launch of a "Call from Athens"
- Press release: Turkey demonstrations - Spirit of compromise must prevail to prevent further regression of democracy
- Greek broadcaster shutdown : Heavy-handed decision underlines democratic concerns
- EU-Summit: Cobbled-together compromise no basis for Europe's future
- UK-EU relationship: Cameron cannot blackmail EU with hokey-cokey referendum
- Nobel Peace Prize: EU gets timely wake-up call
- Palestine: UN recognition an historic step to peaceful solution
- Backward-looking EU budget looms, as haggling leads to wrong priorities being set
- EP backs UN recognition of Palestinian state
- Eurogroup - Greece: Stop shifting goalposts on bailout
- Sakharov prize: Award to Iranian activists ups pressure on regime to end their detention and wider repression
- EU leaders buy more time on banking union but end of year deadline must be final
- Dalli resignation / EU tobacco legislation
Nobel Peace Prize: EU gets timely wake-up call
Press release - Strasbourg - 10.12.2012
"Today's award is a timely wake-up call both for Europe's citizens but, particularly, for Europe's political leaders. Although the EU is undergoing a deep period of crisis, it is not synonymous with crisis and remains a unique project for peace and unity. The EU is far from perfect, neither internally nor towards the outside, and we should take the Nobel Committee's decision as a challenge and encouragement to continue the European project and overcome national borders and limitations. The award is a call to action to respond to the crises facing Europe and the wider world."
Greens/EFA co-president Dany Cohn-Bendit, added:
"It is right for the EU to celebrate this award but it must take this peace mission seriously and push to ensure the EU gains a seat on the UN Security Council as a peaceful power. The award of the Nobel Peace Price should also serve as a mission for the EU and its member states to take responsibility for social peace and justice in the countries hit by the crisis."
Greens/EFA Co-President Rebecca Harms will be attending the award ceremony in Oslo and can be contacted for questions or comments on +49 171 53 25 721.
