The College of Europe Natolin (Warsaw) campus is the beneficiary of the Polish-German Prize 2011 awarded to the current and former Presidents of the European Parliament

The College Of Europe Natolin (Warsaw) campus is the beneficiary of the Polish-German Prize 2011 awarded to the current and former Presidents of the European Parliament.

On 16 September 2011, in the Warsaw Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister, H.E. Mr Rados³aw SIKORSKI, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs and H.E. Mrs Cornelia PIEPER, Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office, awarded the Polish-German Prize to Mr Jerzy BUZEK, the current President of the European Parliament and to the former President, Mr Hans-Gert PÖTTERING.

The Polish-German Award was established by the governments of the Republic of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany on the basis of Article 35 of the Treaty on Good Neighbourhood and Friendly Co-operation of 17 June 1991. The aim of the award is to honour prominent personalities and institutions who have made exceptional contributions to the development of Polish-German relations. The laureates decided to grant the prize of 20,000 euros to students from Moldova and Belarus in order to enable them to study at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe as scholars under the direction of the European Parliament Bronislaw Geremek European Civilization Chair.

Mrs Ewa OSNIECKA-TAMECKA, Vice-Rector of the College of Europe, thanked the laureates for the grant to the College students. Mrs Oœniecka-Tamecka said that this was a generous acknowledgement of the role played by the Natolin campus of the College of Europe in promoting the idea of integration and European unity. She underlined the importance of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership within the College academic programme. Mrs Oœniecka-Tamecka also emphasized that thanks to the gesture of both EP Presidents and their grant the College would be able to spread the idea of European Unity even further.