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| The EU's Nobel peace prize win: how should we feel about it? | The EU's Nobel peace prize win: how should we feel about it? |
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| Why it's a great idea | Why it's a great idea |
| • The deficit in the Eurozone has just been reduced by 923,680 euros. | • The deficit in the Eurozone has just been reduced by 923,680 euros. |
| • There is an offchance the rioting in Athens and Madrid may stop for the day when the award is collected. | • There is an offchance the rioting in Athens and Madrid may stop for the day when the award is collected. |
| • It is a timely reminder that not a single individual world leader – not even Bono – has done anything to advance the cause of peace in the past 12 months. | • It is a timely reminder that not a single individual world leader – not even Bono – has done anything to advance the cause of peace in the past 12 months. |
| • It has really upset Ukip and the rightwing Tory Eurosceptics. | • It has really upset Ukip and the rightwing Tory Eurosceptics. |
| • It's paved the way for Antarctica to win the prize next year. It's the one continent on which a war has never been fought. | • It's paved the way for Antarctica to win the prize next year. It's the one continent on which a war has never been fought. |
| Why it's a terrible idea | Why it's a terrible idea |
| • Angela Merkel will try to pocket the Greek share of the prize money. | • Angela Merkel will try to pocket the Greek share of the prize money. |
| • The prize money will almost certainly be wasted promoting a "European Day of Peace" along with newly created peace ambassadors that no one outside Brussels will ever celebrate. | • The prize money will almost certainly be wasted promoting a "European Day of Peace" along with newly created peace ambassadors that no one outside Brussels will ever celebrate. |
| • The Chinese will be so pissed off they didn't win, they will invade us. Likewise the Americans. | • The Chinese will be so pissed off they didn't win, they will invade us. Likewise the Americans. |
| • No one knows how many countries will still be in the EU by this time next year. | • No one knows how many countries will still be in the EU by this time next year. |
| • The prize should have gone to the Isle of Wight. | • The prize should have gone to the Isle of Wight. |
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