Real significance of a Nobel Prize for the EU. Next Monday, the Nobel prize will be awarded to the official representatives of the European Union. The nearer the day comes, the more the mean-spiritedness and the senseless statements increase. The reason for this prize is sometimes deflected by bad faith or ignorance. The protesters say that the EU does not deserve the prize because it does not prevent the conflicts and cruelties that abound elsewhere in the world - as if the EU was...