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Happy Birthday! We're celebrating 70 years of the Charlemagne Prize on March 15! The new President of the European Commission will honour us with a speech this year, alongside representatives of the Charlemagne Youth Prize and the Charlemagne Prize Academy. Additionally, we're...

Read the latest working paper of one of our Fellows, Federico Fabbrini, who's the director of the DCU Brexit Institute in Dublin and whose research on the currently discussed Conference on the Future of Europe is supported by the Charlemagne Prize Academy and funds of the German Ministry of...

The Charlemagne Prize Academy was officially kicked-off during a Karlspreis Europa Summit on November 14th, organized in cooperation with the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia. Next to various discussions on the key issues of Europe's future, such as security, sustainability, social...

November 5th, 2019: The Launch of the Charlemagne Prize Academy is officially launched at a press conference in Düsseldorf, presented by the Minister President of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, the Minister of State for International Cultural Policy at the...

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen is the oldest and best-known prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification. The Academy will therefore tie on a high-level Network, just expanded by our laureate 2019: Antonió Guterres.