While European leaders greeted the decision, the award tended to be criticized by Eurosceptics[REF] including the far-right (such as National Front leader Marine Le Pen[REF]) and far-left [REF].
On 30 November 2012, Nobel Peace Prize winners Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel publicly opposed the awarding of the prize to the European Union.