Her treatment united both the EU and Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, in opposition to her imprisonment.
It is a fine line between being tough and staying united, but the EU, as Cash once sang, must walk it.
None will join the EU before 2004.
The EU was awarded the prize for its role in uniting the continent after two world wars.
He accuses Turkey of using Cyprus as a pawn to advance its own ambitions for EU membership and says that a united Cyprus should enter the EU without Turkey.But for most Turkish Cypriots isolation is an insult, not an inducement to negotiate.
In a visit to Angela Merkel, he declared it urgent to get Europe out of its state of paralysis and resolve the problems of EADS, the troubled aerospace company.European diplomats say the union is united ahead of the EU-Russia summit on Friday.
The Ukip leader sent a clear message to his party's supporters and all those in favour of leaving the EU to unite for the EU referendum campaign, declaring: "We want our country back".
We can only achieve this by being united and by equipping the EU with the instruments needed to carry out the functions attributed to it.
But the Italian government says a united EU front is needed.
Turkey's occupation of the northern, Turkish-Cypriot part of the island means that, on May 1st, only the southern, Greek-Cypriot part will be admitted to the EU unless negotiations to unite the two parts succeed before then.
