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The EU has watched Viktor Orbán for far too long

Good morning, dear reader, “Europe is like a bicycle. If you stop it, it falls over.” This is a famous sentence from Jacques Delorsthe former President of the EU Commission and pioneer of the European internal market and the euro. For Delors, the European Union should always keep moving. The decision-makers – in the picture […]

The founding father of the euro is dead

Jacques Delors died in Paris at the age of 98. He was President of the EU Commission for ten years and is considered the founding father of the euro. Former EU Commission President Jacques Delors is dead. The Frenchman, who headed the EU Commission from 1985 to 1995, died on Wednesday in Paris at the […]

Former EU Commission President Jacques Delors dies

Jacques Delors headed the EU Commission for many years. He always campaigned resolutely for European unification. Now the Frenchman has died at an old age. Former EU Commission President Jacques Delors is dead. This was reported by the French news agency AFP, citing Delors’ daughter Martine Aubry. Delors died at the age of 98. French […]

Thought leader and Europe’s honorary citizen: Jacques Delors is dead

The Frenchman Delors was a great pioneer in Europe. With Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand, he pushed forward the unification of the continent. The visionary has now died at an old age. The Frenchman Jacques Delors belonged to the very small circle of politicians who are considered to be the “fathers” of European unification. In […]

On the death of Jacques Delors: The Little Sun King

Jacques Delors was a great European and promoted unification in an exemplary manner. He was a pragmatic social democrat like Helmut Schmidt, who valued him, and would have easily passed for a German. One of the oddities of European unification is that a Briton and two Frenchmen pushed the project forward. The Briton was Winston […]