The European Union has decided to give the money they will receive from Nobel's Peace Prize to a new fund for children that are harmed by war.
"The Nobel Peace Prize represents a united world. The award money till go to our biggest hope for the future, and to those that are also the first victims of current and future conflicts: Children," announced José Manuel Barroso, president of the EU Commission in Brussel.
Barroso is one of the three top leaders of the EU who will travel to Oslo to attend the award ceremony in the Oslo City Hall on December 10. The other two are president of the EU Herman Van Rompuy, and president of the EU parliament Martin Schultz.
Another eight to ten heads of state have also accepted the invitation and confirmed that they will attend the ceremony, including Germany's Angela Merkel. "There won't be any empty seats," Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute tells VG.
The award amount for the Nobel Peace Prize this year is NOK 6,8 million.
(TV2/Aftenposten)
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