EU Awarded 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, Norway’s NRK Reports

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2012 Peace Prize to the European Union, Norway’s national broadcaster NRK reported, without saying where it got the information.

Geir Lundestad, the director of the Nobel Institute, said at the Nobel center in Oslo that he had “absolutely no comment to anything.” Spokespeople for European Union President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Barroso had no immediate comment on the Norwegian report. The prize is scheduled to be announced at 11 a.m. in Oslo.