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Happy Birthday! The Charlemagne Prize turned 70 years in 2020!

Due to the current Corona-situation, all anniversary celebrations had to be cancelled to decrease the spread of the virus and to lower down public events with more than 500 participants. 

The Charlemagne Prize Foundation organized a Breakfast Discussion at the Munich Security Conference 2020, aiming to dive deeper into the discussion on current reform proposals presented by the European Commission. The keynote speakers were Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of the European...

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.