2023-12-27 20:33:48
Tributes have been pouring in since the announcement on Wednesday of the death of Jacques Delors. The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron praised on human.”
Statesman of French destiny.
Inexhaustible craftsman of our Europe.
Fighter for human justice.Jacques Delors was all of that.
His commitment, his ideals and his righteousness will always inspire us. I salute his work and his memory and share the pain of his loved ones. pic.twitter.com/3D5FBvdduh
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 27, 2023
“His commitment, his ideals and his righteousness will always inspire us. I salute his work and his memory and share the pain of his loved ones,” he also wrote.
“A giant”, for Olivier Faure
The leader of France Insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke on X of “a socialist of the generation who had an ideal”. “However far away we may have been, I salute the activist and the man of action who acted with the common good in mind,” he added in a message on the social network.
Jacques Delors was a socialist of the generation which had an ideal. However far away we may have been, I salute the activist and the man of action who acted with the common good in mind.
— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) December 27, 2023
“A giant has just left us,” also greeted Olivier Faure, the head of the Socialist Party, of which Jacques Delors was an important figure. “Through his union, ministerial commitment and finally at the head of Europe, he leaves us an immense legacy,” he wrote on X, sending his “condolences” to Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille and daughter of Jacques Delors.
“Europe as we know it today, it was him”, also estimated Laurence Boone, the Secretary of State for Europe, who evokes his “infinite sadness upon learning of the disappearance of Jacques Delors” .
“In the Pantheon of the greats that Europe has produced”
Senior representatives of the European Union also paid tribute to the man who chaired the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. The current President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, thus praised on Stronger Europe”. “His life’s work is a united, dynamic and prosperous European Union. She shaped entire generations of Europeans, including mine,” she paid tribute to her in French on X, inviting us to honor “her heritage by constantly renewing our Europe.”
Jacques Delors was a visionary who made our Europe stronger.
His life’s work is a united, dynamic and prosperous European Union.
It has shaped entire generations of Europeans, including mine.
Let us honor his legacy by constantly renewing our Europe.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) December 27, 2023
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, spoke of “one of the builders of our Europe”. “He was a passionate and concrete defender of it until his last days,” the former Belgian Prime Minister wrote on X.
“Europe has just lost one of its giants,” also regretted the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell. “He thus enters the Pantheon of greats that Europe has produced and whose legacy we must assume,” he wrote.
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