Charlemagne Prize 2011: Jean-Claude Trichet
The Charlemagne Prize is a citizens' prize for distinguished service on behalf of european unification. By the will of its initiators, the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen is to be awarded for outstanding contributions to the cause of European understanding and communal endeavour, of humanity and world peace. It is to honour the fostering of United Europe with regard to politics, economics, culture, and the mind and spirit. The contribution can be made in the literary, scientific-scholarly, economic, and political sector.
conferring 2 June 2011: Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank
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