Robert Schuman Medal, EPP Group

Robert Schuman Medal named after Robert Schuman is awarded to several people annually by the European People's Party group in the European Parliament since July 1986 "to pay tribute to public figures who have advanced the cause of peace, the construction of Europe and human values through their public activities and personal commitment."[1]

Lauretes

Name	Year	Country
1986	E. M. J. A. Sassen	Netherlands
	Alain Poher	France
	Hans August Lücker	West Germany
	Alfred Bertrand	Belgium
	Paolo Barbi	Italy
	Pierre Pflimlin	France
	Leo Tindemans	Belgium
	Emilio Colombo	Italy
	Helmut Kohl	West Germany
	Jacques Santer	Luxemburg
	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Greece
	Konstantinos Karamanlis	Greece
1987	Willem Vergeer	Netherlands
	Giulio Andreotti	Italy
	Flaminio Piccoli	Italy
	Mariano Rumor	Italy
	Piet Bukman	Netherlands
	Adelino Amaro da Costa (posthumously)	Portugal
	Karl-Josef Hahn	West Germany
	Miquel Coll i Alentorn	Spain
	Bruno Heck	West Germany
	Pierre Werner	Luxemburg
1988	Kai-Uwe von Hassel	West Germany
	Francesco Cosentino	Italy
	Lorenzo Natali	Italy
	Peter Sutherland	Ireland
	Karl-Heinz Narjes	West Germany
	Nicolas Mosar	Luxemburg
	Guido Gonella (posthumously)	Italy
	Alberto Ghergo (posthumously)	Italy
	Angelo Narducci (posthumously)	Italy
	Mario Sassano (posthumously)	Italy
	Heinrich Aigner (posthumously)	West Germany
1989	Henry Plumb	United Kingdom
1990	Johanna Maij-Weggen	Netherlands
1991	Jean-Claude Juncker	Luxemburg
	Norbert Schmelzer	Netherlands
	Ruud Lubbers	Netherlands
1992	Egon Klepsch	Germany
1993	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	France
	Filippo Maria Pandolfi	Italy
	Jean Dondelinger	Luxemburg
	Frans Andriessen	Netherlands
	Bernhard Sälzer (posthumously)	Germany
	Lorenzo de Vitto (posthumously)	Italy
	Abel Matutes Juan	Spain
	Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi	Italy
	Peter Schmidhuber	Germany
	Ioannis Paleokrassas	Greece
	René Streichen	France
1995	Jacques Delors	France
	Manuel García Amigo	Spain
	Menelaos Chatzigeorgiou	Greece
	Horst Langes	Germany
	Ferruccio Pisoni	Italy
	Rudolf Luster	Germany
	Günter Rinsche	Germany
	Hans-Gert Poettering	Germany
	Margaretha af Ugglas	Sweden
	Carlos Robles Piquer	Spain
	Georgios Anastassopoulos	Greece
	José Maria Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado	Spain
	Antonio Graziani	Italy
	Nicolas Estgen	Luxemburg
	Christopher Prout	United Kingdom
	Otto Bardong	Germany
	Wilfried Martens	Belgium
1996	Efthimios Christodoulou	Greece
	Miltiadis Evert	Greece
	Panayotis Lambrias	Greece
	Siegbert Alber	Germany
	Edward Heath	United Kingdom
1997	John Bruton	Ireland
	Hans von der Groeben	Germany
	Manuel Fraga Iribarne	Spain
	Gerardo Fernández Albor	Spain
	Franjo Komarica	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1998	Ursula Schleicher	Germany
	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Portugal
1999	Arthur Eisenmenger (received by Rainer Wieland)	Germany
	Poul Schlüter	Denmark
	Francisco António Lucas Pires (posthumously)	Portugal
	Radio B92, Belgrade (received by Veran Matić)	Serbia and Montenegro
2000	Martin M.C. Lee	United Kingdom
	Libet Werhahn-Adenauer	Germany
2001	Jelena Bonner	Russia
	Karl von Wogau	Germany
2002	Nicole Fontaine	France
	Ingo Friedrich	Germany
	Władysław Bartoszewski	Poland
	José María Aznar	Spain
	Hans van den Broek	Netherlands
2003	Wim van Velzen	Netherlands
	Bendt Bendtsen	Denmark
	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Denmark
	Bertel Haarder	Denmark
	Per Stig Møller	Denmark
	Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell	United Kingdom
2004	John Joseph McCartin	Ireland
	Franz Fischler	Austria
	Loyola de Palacio	Spain
	Chris Patten	United Kingdom
	Mario Monti	Italy
	Viviane Reding	Luxemburg
	Pope John Paul II	Poland
2005	Natalia Estemirova	Russia
	Sergei Kovalev	Russia
	Erwin Teufel	Germany
	Tadeusz Mazowiecki	Poland
	Wolfgang Schäuble	Germany
	Michel Barnier	France
	Vytautas Landsbergis	Lithuania
2006	Tunne Kelam	Estonia
2007	Angela Merkel	Germany
	Guido de Marco	Italy
2009	Marianne Thyssen	Belgium
	Jaime Mayor Oreja	Spain
	Hartmut Nassauer	Germany
	João de Deus Pinheiro	Portugal
	Ioannis Varvitsiotis	Greece
	José Manuel Barroso	Portugal
	Jacques Barrot	France
	László Tőkés	Romania
2010	Alberto João Jardim	Portugal
2012	Pietro Adonnino	Italy
	Peter Hintze	Germany
	Íñigo Méndez de Vigo	Spain
	Eddie Fenech Adami	Malta
2013	Reiner Kunze	Germany
2014	George H. W. Bush	United States
	Jerzy Buzek	Czech Republic
	Joseph Daul	France
	Marietta Giannakou	Greece
	Doris Pack	Germany
	Alojz Peterle	Slovenia
	Corien Wortmann	Netherlands
	Vito Bonsignore	Italy
	Ria Oomen-Ruijten	Netherlands
2015	Wolfgang Welsch	Germany
	Jim Sensenbrenner	United States
	Karel Schwarzenberg	Czech Republic
2016	Ilkka Suominen	Finland
2017	Andreas Schockenhoff	Germany
	Lawrence Gonzi	Matla

References

• "The Robert Schuman Medal". European People's Party Group in the European Parliament. Retrieved 16 April 2019.

Notes

1. "The Robert Schuman Medal". European People's Party Group in the European Parliament. Retrieved 16 April 2019.