European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi Prize Winners
1978 Raymond Barre, Prime-minister of France
1980 Constantin Tsatsos, President of Greece
1982 Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria
1984 Sandro Pertini, President of Italy
1986 Juan Carlos I. de Borbón y Borbón, Spanish King and State leader
1988 Franz-Josef Strauss, Prime-minister of Bavaria
1990 Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
1992 Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States
1994 Alois Mock, Vice-chancellor and Minister of foreign affairs of Austria
1994 Otto von Habsburg, President of the Pan-European Union and member of the European Parliament – Special Award of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Century
1996 Lennart Meri, President of Estonia
1998 Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania
1999 Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist – Special Award – Postmortem
2002 Franjo Komarica, Catholic Bishop of Bosnia
2004 Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo & Silivius Magnago, Governor of South Tirol
2006 Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia
2008 Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Secretary of State of Poland
2010 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
2012 Herman Van Rompuy, Chairman of European Council
2014 Jean-Claude Juncker, EU-Commission President.
The European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi Prize is NOT the same as the more benign Charlemagne Prize.