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<\/a>King Felipe VI delivered the Carlos V European Award to Josep Borrell, the former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former president of the European Parliament, in a solemn ceremony organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation at the Monastery of San Jer\u00f3nimo de Yuste. <\/strong>(09\/05\/2025)<\/p>\nDuring his speech, the monarch emphasised that Josep Borrell \u201chas worked tirelessly to ensure that Europe speaks with one voice in times of enormous challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n
He also noted that Borrell \u201chas been a key figure on the path towards a genuine European foreign policy and in projecting the European Union as a global actor, advocating a firmer, more coherent and unified foreign policy\u201d.<\/p>\n
For her part, the president of the Regional Government of Extremadura and president of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation\u2019s Board of Trustees, Mar\u00eda Guardiola, stressed that Europe \u201cmust be a place to express oneself, to feel, to believe \u2014and we must not give up. That is not what we are here for. Because this is a time for courage\u201d. She went on to say that \u201cthrough populism and polarisation, there are those who seek to silence anyone who thinks differently. And Europe is our refuge and our intimate defiance\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mar\u00eda Guardiola, who also chairs the jury of the Carlos V European Award, described the accolade as \u201can act of trust in Europe and in those who, like Josep Borrell, have been able to uphold it even when it seemed on the verge of falling apart. With rigour. With intelligence. With commitment. And above all, with courage\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the laureate of this 18th edition, the president of the Regional Government of Extremadura highlighted that Josep Borrell \u201chas not been a backroom politician, but one rooted in the field. He has never feared conflict, contradictions, or doubt\u201d.<\/p>\n
In her speech, Guardiola praised Borrell as someone who \u201cdared to say what Europe sometimes did not want to hear\u201d in these \u201cturbulent times\u201d, reminding us that \u201cthere is another way of doing politics. That one can be idealistic without being na\u00efve\u201d.<\/p>\n
EUROPEAN DEFENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n In his acceptance speech, Josep Borrell stressed that the present age \u201cis no longer defined by peace, democracy, open trade and liberalism, but by conflict, populism, protectionism and war\u201d.<\/p>\n In this sense, he argued that to face the current situation, \u201cwe will have to move from structural pacifism to solid rearmament \u2014yet doing so at a European scale, if we want to avoid wasting resources and reviving the old national ghosts\u201d.<\/p>\n Josep Borrell, the fourth Spaniard to receive this award, stated that \u201cEurope\u2019s geopolitical survival requires us to take responsibility for our own defence\u201d, acknowledging that this will require reaching agreements \u201cas we did with Schengen and as we did to save the euro\u201d.<\/p>\n Borrell recalled how the bombings in Ukraine began, and defended the view that \u201cEurope must find the financial means to support Ukraine militarily, compensating for the possible end of United States aid\u201d, as, he argued, \u201cwithout a peace that preserves Ukraine\u2019s independence and freedom, we will not be safe in Europe\u201d. He also referred to Gaza, which he described as \u201cthe largest operation of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II\u201d.<\/p>\n Furthermore, he warned that \u201cEurope will not survive if it continues to be a fiscal archipelago of disparate tax policies and fragmented armies\u201d.<\/p>\n Borrell described Europe as \u201ca land of freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion\u201d, and stressed that \u201cpeace has a price, and if we do not pay it, European civilisation will not survive in a chaotic world\u201d.<\/p>\n A FOCAL POINT FOR EUROPE<\/strong><\/p>\n The ceremony for the Carlos V European Award, which today places Extremadura at the centre of attention across the continent, was attended by numerous high-profile figures, including Teresa Ribera, executive vice-president of the European Commission for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition; \u00d3scar L\u00f3pez, minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service; Isabel Perell\u00f3 Dom\u00e9nech, president of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court of Spain; and former prime ministers Mariano Rajoy and Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez \u2014the latter himself a recipient of the Carlos V Award in 2000. Also present were Javier Solana and Marcelino Oreja, who received the award in 2011 and 2017 respectively, with the latter also being a member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, along with former president of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Monago.<\/p>\n Among the Academy members who accompanied the laureate were Abram de Swaan, Ram\u00f3n J\u00e1uregui, Monica Luisa Macovei and Juan Carlos Rodr\u00edguez Ibarra. Nearly twenty diplomatic representatives from European and Ibero-American embassies also attended, including those from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Romania, alongside the Spanish ambassador to Portugal.<\/p>\n With this award, Yuste Foundation seeks to recognise individuals, organisations, projects or initiatives that have contributed to greater understanding and promotion of Europe\u2019s cultural, social, scientific and historical values, as well as to the process of European integration and unity.<\/p>\n Previous recipients of the award include: Jacques Delors (1995); Wilfried Martens (1998); Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez (2000); Mikhail Gorbachev (2002); Jorge Sampaio (2004); Helmut Kohl (2006); Simone Veil (2008); Javier Solana (2011); Jos\u00e9 Manuel Dur\u00e3o Barroso (2014); Sofia Corradi (2016); Marcelino Oreja Aguirre (2017); Antonio Tajani (2018); the project \u201cCultural Routes of the Council of Europe\u201d (2019); Angela Merkel (2021); the European Disability Forum (2022); Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (2023); and Mario Draghi (2024).<\/p>\n The Carlos V European Award is so named because of the European ties of the historic leader, a native of Ghent (Belgium), with German and Spanish grandparents and parents, crowned emperor in Aachen, and who later abdicated in Brussels, thereby renouncing temporal power and retiring to the Monastery of Yuste, where he spent the final years of his life.<\/p>\n Carlos V European Award Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n In connection with the Carlos V European Award, Yuste Foundation offers ten Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies aimed at researchers from across Europe who are currently working on a doctoral thesis in any discipline within the humanities or social sciences.<\/p>\n The Carlos V European Award Grants focus on European history, memory and integration, based on the topic chosen by the awardee for each edition, and approached from a multidisciplinary perspective.<\/p>\n Selected researchers become part of Yuste\u2019s Euro-Ibero-American Alumni Network, which aims to facilitate the exchange of projects and information among researchers specialising in European studies who have been recipients of the Carlos V European Award Grants.<\/p>\n Yuste\u2019s Alumni Network spans leading universities, institutions and research centres around the world. 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