I think is very
funny and ironic that the Norwegian committee gives this particular day the
Nobel peace prize to the European Union. Is important to remember that centuries
ago, in this date, started one of the most bloody chapters of the human history
with the “ discovery” of America.
We don’t
need to go so many years ago to see in this continent, and especially in the
great potencies which ruled there a tendency to make war against other
countries usually smaller and weaker on military terms. Spain and England
strongly support the war against Afghanistan; months ago France had an active
participation on the Libya’s war against the Gadafi regime.
The important
thing in this prize is how the Europeans continue looking themselves like the
center of the world and protectors of the civilization. This is clear in the
Norwegian committee reasons exposed on the news; the European Union is an
active force of the peace on Europe and is the promoter of the alliance between
France and Germany, the two of them great historical enemies. All this is true
to certain point; first the Union is principally and economic agreement which
have brought terrible consequence to peripheral countries like Greece when they
must pay the “helps” of the UE. Second, the UE promote together with the peace,
and single economic model which trays to any cost destroy the welfare state.
This
situation shows that many things don’t change yet, how I already said, Europe
doesn’t look like equal to the people across the sea when war there is not important
to the peace here. And by the other side, the concept of peace the Norwegian
committee has, doesn’t consider the social conflicts the UE generates on their
own smaller neighbors.
