According to Media Sources, Jacques Delors, the former European Commission chief and a key figure in the establishment of the European Union’s historic single currency project, passed away at the age of 98. As Per Media Sources, the French socialist, known for his staunch advocacy of post-war European integration, died in his sleep at his home in Paris, as announced by his family.
As Per Media Sources, Delors served as president of the European Commission for three terms – longer than any other holder of the office – from January 1985 until the end of 1994.
According to Media Sources, Delors served an unprecedented three terms as the President of the European Commission, from January 1985 untill the end of 1994. As Per Media Sources, during Delors’s decade as the European Commission chief, the EU completed its integrated single market and agreed to introduce a single currency, the euro, and built a common foreign and security policy.
Additionally, the conditions for admitting former communist states from Central and Eastern Europe were set during his leadership, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
A key figure in French politics, Delors also served as the finance minister under President Francois Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984. Despite being a frontrunner in the polls, he chose not to run for the presidency in 1995, citing a “desire for independence that was too great”.
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the former EU leader as an “inexhaustible architect of our Europe” and a fighter for human justice. Posting on X (formerly Twitter), Macron said “his commitment, his ideal and his rectitude will always inspire us”. He called Delors “a statesman with a French destiny”.
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