Brussels, 05/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 1 May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was awarded the European Charlemagne Prize in Aix-la-Chapelle for the determining role she played as president-in-office of the European Council during the first half of 2007 and in negotiations on the new Lisbon Treaty, whose final adoption in October 2007 in the Portuguese capital put an end to the crisis caused by the stalled European Constitution project in 2005. “Europe had to be brought out of the rut...