EU & Obama Show the Nobel Peace Prize Isn’t Based on Merit: Ex-AfD MEP
22:02 10.10.2025 (Updated: 22:04 10.10.2025)
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EU & Obama Show the Nobel Peace Prize Isn’t Based on Merit: Ex-AfD MEP
The Nobel Peace Prize should not go to political activists, argues political analyst and former AfD MEP Gunnar Beck in comments to Sputnik regarding the award given to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
"The fact that Barack Obama, who has been responsible for multiple military interventions, or the EU, which is an unaccountable political body with self-serving and distinct political aims, have been awarded the prize while undoubted pacifists and compassionate figures like Mahatma Gandhi did not, is proof enough that the prize award is often a political, not a merit-based decision."
Many see Machado as Washington’s next proxy in Venezuela after her predecessor, Juan Guaido, failed a coup attempt in Caracas and lost backing from opposition allies in 2023.
"Candidates are nominated and chosen by committees which consist of public figures, notables and often politicians or high-profile figures who desperately want it. To pretend that these people are not motivated, at least in part, by political views and/or influenced by political pressure is totally unrealistic," Beck concluded.
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