EU CHAOS LEADS TO NOBEL PRIZE !

For some reason known only to themselves, the Nobel Committee has decided to award this year's Peace Prize to the European Union.

 

The Peace Prize has always been the most contentious award, often given for vague and doubtful socialist reasons to people more connected with war, aggression and conflict than with peace. More recent awards have become ever more strange, with the award to Barack Obama a couple of years ago, before he'd been in office long enough to achieve anything, being a particularly odd occurrence.

 

Even given what has gone before, the award to the European Union has to be one of the most ridiculous of all. Apparently the Prize Committee has said that the EU has helped to transform Europe "from a continent of war to a continent of peace". Clearly, in their isolated ivory tower, the Committee has failed to notice the chaos currently within Europe, largely brought about by the actions of the same European Union. The member states of the EU, and particularly those unfortunate enough to have chosen to use the disastrous 'Euro' currency, are now facing their biggest crisis for decades, with recession and social unrest threatening to tear the whole organisation apart.

 

While it may be true that the creation of the EU came about as a consequence of WW2 and a desire to try to ensure that there would never be another European war, the reality is that the current increasingly centralised structure of the EU is more likely to lead to another war than to prevent one. At least some member states are at each other's throats and there is constant dissension between almost all. How this can have led the Peace Prize Committee to arrive at its decision has to be one of the greatest mysteries of all time.