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Keep In Touch 37 [May 2004] - Aachen and Euregio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Karlspreis zu Aachen was proclaimed by the citizens of Aachen in 1949 under the influence of two world wars and has been awarded to personalities or institutions, who have worked extensively on the unification of Europe since 1950. |
 | | The president of the European Parliament, the Irishman Pat Cox, was awarded the International Karlspreis 2004 on the traditional date, namely Ascension Day, which was on 20th May this year; the reasoning: “The exceptional personal merits are to be recognised, which Cox acquired due to the imminent expansion of the European Union”. |
 | | According to the board of directors, the Karlspreis 2004 is being awarded to the highest representative of the institution, “which gave the process of expansion a decisive quality and dynamic, and upon whom all hope now rests for a further intensification of the settlement procedures.” |
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