Desmond Tutu has contested the decision to award the prize to the European Union in an open letter to the Nobel Committee

Fellow Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel also signed the letter, which insisted the EU was not a ‘champion of peace’

The trio said the $1.2million prize money should not be paid out to the bloc, which they claim contradicts the values associated with the prize

The decision to award the prize to the EU in a year marked by rioting amid the ongoing Eurozone crisis has already been widely derided

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