The Charles V European Award is awarded by the European Academy of Yuste Foundation. The award is delivered to those individuals, organisations, projects or initiatives who "with their effort and dedication, have contributed to the general understanding and appreciation of the cultural, scientific values, historians of Europe, as well as the process of unification of the European Community".
History
The award bears the name of
Charles V of Habsburg. Charles was crowned emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire, in the
Aachen
Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...
palatine chapel, the same place where previously
Charlemagne had been crowned. Charles, born in
Ghent (Flanders, Belgium) and of Spanish and German ancestors, ruled the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and other nations of Central Europe in the 16th century. He was a polyglot (speaking French, Dutch, Latin, Spanish, Italian, and German) and a believer in the medieval idea of a united Christian Europe.
He spent his last days suffering gout in the
Monastery of Yuste, in the Spanish region of
Extremadura, where he died in 1558.
This award was established in 1995, to highlight the European spirit of Spain, similarly to other European prizes such as the
Charlemagne Prize, awarded by the city of Aachen since 1950, and was presented to King
Juan Carlos I
Juan Carlos I (;,
* ca, Joan Carles I,
* gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...
in 1982.
Recipients
* 1995.
Jacques Delors
* 1998.
Wilfried Martens
* 2000.
Felipe González Márquez
* 2002.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...
* 2004.
Jorge Sampaio
* 2006.
Helmut Kohl
* 2008.
Simone Veil
* 2011.
Javier Solana Madariaga
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga (; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Spain), Foreign Af ...
* 2013.
Durao Barroso
* 2016.
Sofia Corradi
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has ...
* 2017.
Marcelino Oreja Aguirre
* 2018.
Antonio Tajani
Antonio Tajani (; born 4 August 1953) is an Italian politician, journalist and former Italian Air Force officer, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 22 October 2022. He served as President of the ...
* 2019.
Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
* 2021.
Angela Merkel
By country
*
Spain : 3
*
France,
Portugal,
Italy,
Germany : 2
*
Belgium,
Russia,
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ...
: 1
External links
Yuste Foundation
Notes
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