The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 for the European Union

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40. Reactions from the European far-right: Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage, etc.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, said the Nobel committee has to “come down from their ivory tower and see what is going on on the ground. They should measure the suffering of the people and see the growing revolt.”

Dutch populist lawmaker Geert Wilders scoffed: “Nobel prize for the EU. At a time (when) Brussels and all of Europe is collapsing in misery. What next?”

Nigel Farage, head of the U.K. Independence Party — which wants Britain to withdraw from the union — called Friday’s peace prize “an absolute disgrace.”

“First Al Gore, then Obama, now this. Parody is redundant,” tweeted Daniel Hannan, a euroskeptic European lawmaker — yes, such things exist — from Britain’s Conservative Party.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ig-nobel-award-european-unions-many-detractors-deride-peace-prize-decision/2012/10/12/28b954ac-1475-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html

Not too surprising that the far-right would not be too happy about any good news for the EU.