This award underscores the fact that Ukraine is part of Europe and that its people and its government – headed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – support and defend European values, and therefore deserve encouragement to enter swiftly into accession negotiations with the European Union. The Board of Directors of the Society for the Conferring of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen is awarding the Charlemagne Prize 2023 to the Ukrainian people and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for their fight for freedom and democracy against the unjustified Russian war of aggression. Recent winners of the Charlemagne Prize include the Belarusian opposition leaders (2022), Klaus Iohannis (2020/21), António Guterres (2019), Emmanuel Macron (2018), Timothy Garton Ash (2017) and Pope Francis (2016). The prize is named for Charlemagne, the Frankish king revered by his contemporaries as the “Father of Europe”. Though the territory would splinter again in the centuries that followed, Charlemagne's reforms were the spark that ignited Europe's cultural rebirth.The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen (Der Internationale Karlspreis zu Aachen) is the oldest and best-known prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification. He was the first Emperor to rule the continent since the fall of Rome and was seen as a powerful adversary to the successful Byzantine Empire, centered in modern-day Turkey. All of a sudden, not only were the once-fractured regions of Europe connected by peaceful trade networks and common laws, but people could communicate with each other too.įor spreading Christianity across Europe and to recognize his achievements as the territory's wide-reaching ruler, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day in A.D. The progressive leader loved to learn, historians say, and so encouraged schooling throughout his kingdom in his chosen lingua franca, Latin. Among other legislation, all local regional governors were subject to regular inspections by royal emissaries to make sure no injustices were being done.Įducational reform was also high on Charlemagne's agenda. The lower classes benefited in other ways under Charlemagne, who was frustrated with the nobility's sense of entitlement and had deep sympathy for the peasants, according to historians. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in Western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and ruled absolutely over a vast domain for thirteen years. Trade became easier and the continent prospered, aided by laws that took some power away from the nobles and let the peasantry participate in commerce. Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany.
One of the most important changes Charlemagne made was abandoning the gold standard and putting all of Europe on the same silver currency.
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