Who was Jacques Delors? The former EU Commission President died at 98 • FRANCE 24 English

In 1985 jacqu delore was propelled to the Helm of the European commission with the support of French president frison this was a position a long time in the making with his father at the bank def France delore himself joined the bank in 1945 his main agenda to build Europe’s

Credibility I will not be a showman I will not make ill-considered promises I will not fall into euroskepticism and on this journey delore adopted a motto of interdependence and solidarity it is not by leaning on the shoulders of a drowning teammate that we will escape the wreck we will save

Ourselves together or we will not save ourselves at all the made it his mission to perfect the single market and push the member states towards the Mich treaty in 1992 he also became an architect of the Euro by the time he left Brussels he had presided over the

Commission for three terms becoming the most most successful holder of that post to date but despite much support from across the Spectrum delor decided not to run for the presidency in France instead he supported lonel josa although the polls were favorable towards me I decided not to run delor started his political career

As a representative in one of the Count’s main trade unions it was in 1969 that he became a member of prime minister Jac Shaban dma’s cabinet later on in 1974 he joined the Socialist Party taking on a role in economic relations seven years on he was appointed as president mahon’s Minister

Of Economics and finance this at a time the French economy had plunged into a deep recession so delore piloted a socialist recovery plan to give the country time to catch its breath the measures included reducing the retirement age from 65 to 60 and a reduction of working hours however when

This failed delor convinced miton to walk back and Implement a U-turn and so he slapped on price controls and a wage freeze That’s My Philosophy sometimes we need a shock these latest measures were slammed by his own party that said delore did succeed in restoring relative economic

Stability in 1995 after the victory of Jac shak’s president delore went into semi-retirement never giving up the European dream in 2005 he campaigned with his daughter for a treaty establishing the European Constitution when they call on me I come and that he did in 2007 delore through his weight

Behind seen Royal he leaves this world not only known for the support he gave but with his nickname intact the father of modern day EU

Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, a founding father of the European Union’s historic single currency project, has died at the age of 98.
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2 comments

  1. Delors was a humble, ambitious man.
    I support the EU. We need the European Union to have peace, democracy, freedom, workers rights, human rights and geopolitical stability.

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