Buffeted by debt crisis, EU wins Nobel Peace Prize

Sunday, October 14, 2012

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission president had no reason to expect anything but another bad day. Then, out of the blue, after three years of back-biting and seemingly daily financial crisis, the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering peace on a continent long ravaged by war.

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