Walter Hallstein Prize

The Walter Hallstein Prize is awarded annually in November from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main and the Dresdner Bank AG to a personality who has made outstanding contribution to the European integration. The award is endowed with 20,000 euros.

The award ceremony will take place in Frankfurt Romans, under the Walter - Hallstein symposium held. Upstream of the symposium is regularly a scientific colloquium is aligned content from Wilhelm Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order, University of Frankfurt am Main. The Prize is named after Walter Hallstein, President of the first Commission of the EEC named.

Award winners

  • 2002 Ralf Dahrendorf
  • 2003 Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, Former President of of the European Court
  • 2004 Wim Duisenberg, former President of the ECB
  • 2005 Jean -Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
  • Vaira Vike -Freiberga 2006, State President of Latvia
  • 2007 Hans -Gert Poettering, President of the European Parliament
  • 2008 Claudio Magris, Italian writer
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