GERMANY: Polish PM Donald Tusk receives the Walther Rathenau prize presented by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, an award which honours "outstanding lifetime achievements in foreign affairs"

Record ID: 855970

  • Title: GERMANY: Polish PM Donald Tusk receives the Walther Rathenau prize presented by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, an award which honours "outstanding lifetime achievements in foreign affairs"
  • Date: 31st May 2012
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 31, 2012) (REUTERS) SIGN SAYING "WALTHER RATHENAU PRIZE" CEREMONY HALL AND TILT DOWN TO AUDIENCE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL AND POLISH PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK WALKING IN PHOTOGRAPHER AND PAN TO MERKEL AND TUSK SITTING MERKEL AND TUSK SITTING WIDE CEREMONY MERKEL AND TUSK TALKING AND ZOOM OUT TO CEREMONY CAMERAS MERKEL AND TUSK WALKING ONTO STAGE AUDIENCE VARIOUS OF TUSK BEING AWARDED WITH RATHENAU PRIZE CAMERAS (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: "Over the last couple of years his credit as a long-sighted European were clearly visible." TUSK LISTENING TO MERKEL SPEAKING WIDE OF MERKEL SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) POLISH PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK SAYING: "Today also has a clear message, for the Germans and the Poles: We can not afford to ever rest during all this work (building Europe) and it is about us and future generations to maintain and cultivate our relations so that history can never be repeated, neither on German ground nor on Polish, and not in our common Europe. Thank you very much for all those kind words, for the medal, and for your feelings." TUSK WALKING OFF / HUGGING AND KISSING MERKEL / SITTING DOWN AUDIENCE APPLAUDING WIDE ROOM / TUSK AND MERKEL WALKING OUT TO CAR VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE OF VENUE
  • Embargoed: 15th June 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
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  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5IVL4N8CS6I871QSQ0998Z7O7
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  • Story Text: Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland on Thursday (May 31) was awarded Germany's Walther Rathenau prize for "his services in order to deepen European integration during the Polish presidency of the European Union" last year.
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel pointed out his achievements as the president of the European Union.
    "Over the last couple of years his credit as a long-sighted European were clearly visible," Merkel said in her eulogy for Tusk.
    Thanking his hosts, Tusk highlighted in his address "a clear message in this award - to continue to work on the German-Polish relations."
    "We can not afford to ever rest during all this work (building Europe) and it is about us and future generations to maintain and cultivate our relations so that history can never be repeated, neither on German ground nor on Polish, and not in our common Europe. Thank you very much for all those kind words, for the medal, and for your feelings," Tusk said.
    The Walther Rathenau award is the second award given to Tusk by the Germans.
    In 2010, Tusk received the Charles the Great Award, one of the most popular political awards in Germany.
    The award has been awarded since 2008.
    Walther Rathenau was the minister of foreign affairs of the Weimar Republic, an industrialist as well as an essayist of Jewish descent, who was murdered in 1922 by German extreme nationalists.
    The first person who was given this award was the head of German diplomacy, Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
    Other recipients include the President of Israel, Shimon Peres and U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
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