23 Facts About Jacques Delors

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Jacques Lucien Jean Delors was born on 20 July 1925 and is a French retired politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995.

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Jacques Delors served as Minister of Finance of France from 1981 to 1984.

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Jacques Delors was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981.

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Jacques Delors implemented the policies that closely linked the member nations together and promoted the need for unity.

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Jacques Delors created a single market that made the free movement of persons, capital, goods, and services within the European Economic Community possible.

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Jacques Delors headed the committee that proposed the monetary union to create the Euro, a new single currency to replace individual national currencies.

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In 1957, Jacques Delors left the CFDT when he became a high government official to avoid conflicts of interests.

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In 1974 Jacques Delors joined the French Socialist Party, with other left-wing Christians.

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Jacques Delors was one of the rare members of the party to be openly religious, thus challenging its long-standing secular tradition of Laicite.

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Jacques Delors served in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981, becoming chairman of its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, actively taking part in debates about economic, social and monetary policies.

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Under President Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Delors served as Economics and Finance Minister from 1981 to 1983, and Economics, Finance, and Budget Minister from 1983 to 1984.

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Jacques Delors advocated a pause in the social policies, a clear acceptance of the market economy, and an alignment with European social democracy.

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Jacques Delors became the President of the European Commission in January 1985.

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In opposition to the strident neoliberalism of American President Ronald Reagan which dominated the American political agenda, Jacques Delors promoted an alternative interpretation of capitalism that embedded it in the European social structure.

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The Jacques Delors presidency has been considered as the apex of the European Commission's influence on European integration.

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In 1994, members of the French Socialist Party attempted to persuade Jacques Delors to run for President of France.

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In 1995, Jacques Delors won the Charles V Prize, awarded by the Fundacion Academia Europea de Yuste.

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Jacques Delors founded the Paris-based, centre-left think tank Notre Europe in 1996 and remains one of its presidents.

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Jacques Delors is president of the Conseil de l'emploi, des revenus et de la cohesion sociale, and honorary member of both the Institut Aspen France and the Club of Rome.

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On 15 September 2010 Jacques Delors supported the new initiative Spinelli Group, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union.

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In 2010, Jacques Delors was the first to be honored with the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award.

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On 25 June 2015, Donald Tusk announced that Jacques Delors would become the third person ever to have the title of Honorary Citizen of Europe bestowed upon them, in recognition of "his remarkable contribution to the development of the European project".

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Jacques Delors was married to Marie Lephaille until her death in 2020.