The president, Emmanuel Macron, will preside over “a national tribute ceremony” to Jacques Delors on January 5 at the Invalides, the Elysée announced on Friday, December 29, confirming information from France Inter. The socialist, figure of European construction, died on Wednesday. He was 98 years old.
The Head of State greeted the announcement of his disappearance as an “inexhaustible architect of our Europe”. An unwavering apostle of European construction, father of the euro and ephemeral hope of the French left in the 1995 presidential election, Jacques Delors was also François Mitterrand’s Minister of the Economy at the time of the turning point in austerity.
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