The EU claimed the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, with the committee rewarding the bloc “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.

While the award is mostly handed out to individuals who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”, but it is occasionally awarded to intergovernmental bodies.

A Norwegian Nobel committee statement read: “The EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest.

“[But] the stabilising part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.”

When Brussels collected the award in 2012, then Mayor of London, Mr Johnson, wrote in his 2012 column that the EU’s achievement was a decision of “madness”, and questioned whether the bloc had really contributed to peace.

Mr Johnson said: “We can only wonder what madness took hold at the judging lunch the other day, when that committee of Norwegian worthies was asked to appoint this year’s winner of the prize.

“Whatever it was, they must have been out of their minds to ignore all human candidates and award the prize to the European Union. And for bringing peace to Europe! You might as well offer recognition to Lance Armstrong for his role in promoting good sportsmanship.”

Mr Johnson then went on to argue that rather than award the prize to the EU, it should have been former Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher who was recognised.

Mr Johnson said: “Yes, instead of giving the prize to a clutch of ugly plate-glass office blocks in Brussels, the Nobel committee should have awarded it to Margaret Hilda Thatcher.

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“It wasn’t as if the EU was the body that helped to keep the peace during the Cold War. Most people would agree that was the work of NATO, and the threat of retaliation against Soviet aggression.

“It wasn’t the EU that went toe to toe with Russia over the stationing of Soviet missiles in Europe. It was Reagan and Thatcher.

“It was her ideas of free market democracy that inspired the peoples and politicians of Eastern Europe – and in some cases still do. Why not honour her, rather than a bureaucracy?”

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