When those madcap Scandinavian satirists awarded the Nobel peace prize to the European Union,
they let everyone in on the joke by praising its commitment to
"reconciliation, democracy and human rights". If the committee's 2012
citation were anything other than a spoof, you would have read
denunciations of the rise of oppressive state power and neo-Nazism in Greece from concerned Euro commissioners long before now.
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