Stock Photo - 26 May 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Aachen: Annalena Baerbock (Greens, front), German Foreign Minister, applauds the laureates Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (M), opposition politician from Belarus, Veronika Zepkalo (center, r), civil rights activist from Belarus, and Tatsiana Khomich (center, l), who stands on stage on behalf of her sister M. Kolesnikova (photo), who is imprisoned in Belarus. Applauding next to her are Jürgen Linden (l), chairman of the Charlemagne Prize Board of Directors, Lithuania's ex-president Dalia Grybauskaite (2nd from left), 2013 laureate, British historian Timothy Garton Ash (4th from right.), laureate of 2017, Sibylle Keupen (independent, 3rd from right), mayor of Aachen, and SPD politician Martin Schulz (r), laureate of 2015. The Charlemagne Prize has been awarded since 1950 for services to Europe and European unification. Photo: Bernd Thissen/dpa. - Aachen/North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany