Jacques Delors, Passionate Architect of European Unity, Dies at 98!
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As president of the European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, from 1985 through 1994, Mr. Delors maintained a nearly religious faith in the principle of a federal and communal Europe, even as the eurozone debt crisis, a contentious debate over migration and the essential question of whether rich northern countries would keep providing funds to their near bankrupt neighbors in southern Europe threatened to rip this vision apart.
His death was confirmed by a spokesman for his daughter, the French politician Martine Aubry.
the father of Europe’s common currency, the euro, died on Wednesday at his home in Paris. He was 98.
Jacques Delors, a hard-driving French politician who as the European Union’s executive for a decade became the chief architect of a more unified Europe
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