2023-12-29 12:40:51
Jacques Delors, July 5, 2007 as he left the Elysée. JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER / REUTERS
The president, Emmanuel Macron, will preside over the Invalides on January 5 “a national tribute ceremony” to Jacques Delors, 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.
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The Head of State greeted the announcement of his disappearance “inexhaustible craftsman 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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