Norwegians are not particularly noted for their sense of humour
The decision, announced today, that the Nobel Prize for Peace had been awarded to the European Union (EU) shows how badly we have misjudged them. In truth, there was an early indication that they were not so strait-laced as we once thought when they awarded Barack Obama the Peace Prize a few months after he was elected President of the USA and had hardly had time to get his feet under the table. Today, though, in naming the EU the recipient of the 2012 Prize for Peace, they played a joke worthy of The Onion
