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Peace group says European Nobel prize is ‘unlawful’
Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is “unlawful” since it is not a “champion of peace” as defined by the will of founder Alfred Nobel, the International Peace Bureau said on Monday. In an open letter to Sweden’s Nobel Foundation, the organisation asked that this year’s eight…
Americans top the list of favorites for Monday’s Nobel Economics Prize
Americans top the list of favourites for Monday’s Nobel Economics Prize, an award that increasingly rarely seems to go to a European. The European Union was handed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but it seems unlikely that the continent will be home to the winner of the economics prize, which…
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