The Charlemagne prize is awarded annually by the German city of Aachen for contributions to European unity. Previous winners include former U.S. President Bill Clinton and St. John Paul II, who received a special edition of the prize in 2004.
The Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne once ruled a large swath of western Europe from Aachen, near the Belgian border.
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