The Jury for 2010’s edition of the ‘Charles V European Award’ has decided to reward the work of Javier Solana for his career, his level of commitment in international European politics and his efforts in favor of Peace and Democracy as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The Jury was composed by Guillermo Fernández Vara, Juan Ramón Ferreira Díaz, Julio Márquez de Prado Pérez, Leonor Flores Rabazo, Abram de Swaan, Marcelino Oreja Aguirre, Alejandro Cercas Alonso, Francisco Duque Carrillo, Enrique Moradiellos García, Luis González Seara, Jesús Baigorri Jalón, Manuela Mendonça, Philippe Leguen, Leticia Ruiz Capillas, Agustín Sánchez Moruno, Martti Ahtisaari, Felipe González Márquez, Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, Jacques Delors, Simone Veil, Paul Preston, Wilfried Martens and Antonio Ventura DíazDíaz.

This is the eighth edition of the ‘Charles V European Award’; on previous occasions the award was granted to deserving personalities such as Jacques Delors (1995), Wilfried Martens (1998), Felipe González (2000), Mijail Gorbachov (2002), Jorge Sampaio (2004), Helmut Kohl (2006) and Simone Veil (2008).

Along with Solana, 10 other candidates were proposed. The European Academy of Yuste Foundation called for nominations between October 15th and November 30th. The Foundation has received 33 proposals from institutions settled in 11 EU countries (Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom and Spain).

The European Academy of Yuste Foundation created the ‘Charles V European award' in order to reward the work of those persons who have contributed through their effort and dedication to the general knowledge and enhancement of Europe’s cultural, social, scientific, and historical values, as well as to the process of European integration.

In addition, the European Academy of Yuste Foundation announces next year’s European research and mobility grants, related to European history and integration studies and named after every edition’s award winner. The award is endowed with 180,000 euros, half of which is applied to the prize itself, and the other half to fund the European research and mobility grants named of the winner. 

The “Charles V European Award’ 2010 will be delivered at the Royal Monastery of Yuste in a solemn ceremony presided over by members of the Royal House, on the date they determine.