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 |