A reminder of postwar Europe's signal achievement The Nobel
award must be read as a plea to EU leaders to dig deeper to
solve the union’s crisis, writes ARTHUR BEESLEY, European
Correspondent AS THE EU struggles to overcome its gravest crisis
in six decades of political integration, the award of the Nobel
Peace Prize serves as a reminder of its signal achievement: the
consolidation of peace in Europe. With the single currency still
on the rocks and many millions of Europeans under economic
siege, it may seem dubious for the EU to be singled out now for
its unique contribution to world stability. Not only is the euro
under existential threat, but the response to the crisis has
brought deep-rooted tensions to the fore that EU leaders would
rather not confront. The Nobel award comes amid an increasingly
painful austerity drive, anxiety about policy overreach from
Brussels and the certainty of more to come on both these fronts.
With resolution of the debacle as elusive as ever, the imbroglio
has highlighted the f