While the Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded this week in an ornate hall in Oslo, a small island nearby was shrouded in a cold mist that made it seem almost haunted.
Utoya Island has dropped
from the headlines, but it remains fresh in the memory of many,
including one of the European Union leaders who received the Nobel
prize, as the site of Norway's worst mass murder since World War II.
Martin Schultz, the president of the European Parliament made a point of
going to the island the very next day.
"The attack was an attack
on our values," said Martin Schulz, president of the European
Parliament. "But our values are stronger than the attack."
Schulz -- along with
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council
President Herman Van Rompuy -- accepted the award on the EU's behalf
Monday, with the massacre of July 2011 already on his mind.
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