{"id":17766,"date":"2012-10-12T10:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=17766"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:29:27","slug":"the-eus-nobel-peace-prize-is-utterly-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/12\/the-eus-nobel-peace-prize-is-utterly-bizarre\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU&#8217;s Nobel peace prize is utterly bizarre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the latest in a string of controversial decisions from the Norwegian panel.<\/p>\n<p>Thorbj\u00c3\u00b8rn Jagland, head of the Oslo-based Nobel Committee, justified the award by stressing the EU\u2019s role in bringing France and Germany closer together, and by helping strengthen democracy in southern as well as central and eastern Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hang on: Greece and Italy lost democratically elected\u00a0prime\u00a0ministers at EU behest.<\/p>\n<p>Governments across Europe are having to give up\u00a0powers\u00a0to the EU and must\u00a0impose\u00a0austerity on demand.<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0democracy?<\/p>\n<p>Orwell - spin in your grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has noted: The EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the latest in a string of controversial decisions from the Norwegian<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/12\/the-eus-nobel-peace-prize-is-utterly-bizarre\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}