The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, presented the 2022 Sakharov Prize to the “courageous people of Ukraine”, represented by its President, elected representatives and civil society representatives, on Wednesday 14 December in Strasbourg.
“No one deserves this prize more” than the Ukrainian people, she said at the ceremony in the Chamber. Awarded for the first time to an entire people on the 293rd day of the war, it is “a clear message from Europe: we stand...