Europe.” The EU, which stretches these days from Finland to Portugal and is home to some 450 million people, was dubbed “the house that Jacques built' by a popular biography.

“It is our responsibility to continue his work today for the good of Europe.”įor many, the owlish but hard-driving Socialist and Catholic was simply “Mr. Paying tribute, the office of French President Emmanuel Macron said: “This grandson of farmers and the son of a bank employee, whose rise was entirely due to his talent, never allowed the lofty heights to corrupt his human righteousness.”ĭelors 'became the builder of the EU as we know it today,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The best results of European integration cannot be dissociated from the vision, the courage, the conviction, the perseverance and the relentless work which characterized Jacques Delors' work during his 10 years at the head of the European Commission.”

“The whole of Europe mourns the death of one of its greatest architects,” the institute said in a statement. BRUSSELS (AP) - Jacques Delors, a Paris bank messenger’s son who became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in Paris, the Delors Institute think tank told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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