North Korea US negotiations: Could Trump Win The Nobel Peace Prize? Peace in Korean Peninsula Would Be Significant Foreign Policy Achievement

With the unthinkable now cautiously possible, peace between North and South Korea, speculation about President Donald Trump becoming a Nobel Peace Prize winner has begun. If peace in the Korean Peninsula truly happens, the Nobel committee could be left with a difficult choice regarding Trump’s candidacy.

Recognizing those who helped bring peace to the region would seem like an easy choice, but a decision to give Trump the award could force the Nobel Prize committee into a fierce political debate on whether a man who has openly mocked foreign leaders, launched multiple airstrikes and has threatened war, deserves an award for peace.

But, if the reconciliation happens, how could Trump’s apparent achievement not be recognized? Donald Trump Jr. said regardless of what unfolds, his father won’t get the credit. “Remember who decides this stuff,” he tweeted. “... The globalist elite would never give him that win.”

Note EU-Digest: Let us not go overboard or jump to conclusions on this one. The meeting between the US and North Korean leaders has not had taken place yet, and "one meeting is a step in the right direction, but does not mean peace has been achieved". Regardless, the person who should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts is really the PM of South Korea, Lee Nak-yeo, who organized this upcoming meeting meeting and already held a meeting with the North Korean leader.

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Economics: Nobel in economics to Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, Robert Shiller

American scientists Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller have won the 2013 Nobel in economics "for their empirical analysis of asset prices," the Stockholm-based award-giving body said today.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the three for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets, saying they had laid the foundation of current understanding of asset prices.

While it's hard to predict whether stock or bond prices will go up or down in the short term, it's possible to foresee movements over periods of three years or longer, the academy said. "These findings, which might seem surprising and contradictory, were made and analyzed by this year's laureates," the academy said.
Fama, 74, and Hansen, 60, are associated with the University of Chicago. Shiller, 67, is a professor at Yale University.

American researchers have dominated the economics awards in recent years; the last time there was no American among the winners was in 1999.

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Europe speaks German - by Perry Anderson

It is becoming clear that Germany intends to be the EU’s major political as well as economic power, and to dominate European governance to favour Germany’s privileged position as the global economic order changes. Ordinary citizens of other countries in Europe may refuse to comply.

The novelist Gabriel García Márquez used to say that the Nobel Prize for Peace would have been better named the Nobel Prize for War, given its recipients — Henry Kissinger, Menahim Begin, Barack Obama. This year’s award is less bellicose, but still material for satire: the European Union.

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Europe trip part thanks, part political lecture tour for Myanmar's democracy icon Suu Kyi - by Frank Jordans

Twenty-four years ago Aung San Suu Kyi left Europe for what was then a military-controlled nation called Burma. She returns Wednesday the icon of Myanmar's democracy movement to a continent eager to hear from her whether the country's recent reforms truly spell the end of its cruel dictatorship.

The trip is seen as a sign of gratitude to those governments and organizations that supported Suu Kyi's peaceful struggle against Myanmar's generals over more than two decades, 15 years of which she spent under house arrest.

In Geneva, her first stop, Suu Kyi will on Thursday address the annual meeting of the U.N.'s International Labor Organization, whose campaign against slavery and child labour in Myanmar drew constant attention to the junta's abusive exploitation of its people.

Suu Kyi then flies to Oslo, where on Friday she will formally receive the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to her 21 years earlier while she was detained by the military after leading a pro-democracy party to victory in Myanmar's 1990 elections.

Read more: Europe trip part thanks, part political lecture tour for Myanmar's democracy icon Suu Kyi - Winnipeg Free Press