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Jacques Delors

Geburtstag: 20. Juli 1925

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors ist ein französischer Politiker der Sozialistischen Partei Frankreichs .

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„Nicht alle Deutschen glauben an Gott, aber alle glauben an die Bundesbank.“

— Jacques Delors

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„It is impossible to build Europe on only deregulation…1992 is much more than the creation of an internal market abolishing barriers to the free movement of goods services and investment…The internal market should be desgined to benefit each and every citizen of the Community. It is therefore necessary to improve workers' living and working conditions, and to provide better protection for their health and safety at work…Europe needs you.“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech to the British Trades Union Congress (8 September 1988), quoted in The Independent (9 September 1988).

„What is perceived as a cost by some will turn out to be the competitive advantage of Europe by helping maintain a well-trained, secure workforce, open to change.“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech to a Trades Union Congress conference in London (31 August 1994), quoted in The Times (1 September 1994), p. 25
President of the European Commission

„Federalism is a guideline, not a pornographic word, you can speak it out loud…We have been focusing too much on a country that has said no, no, no!“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech in Maastricht (8 December 1991), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 200.

„We must define the political Europe that we want. We must plead for the federal approach.“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech in Lorient (29 August 1993), quoted in The Times (30 August 1993), p. 11
President of the European Commission

„The crux is the reform of the treaty which would lead to common action. There must be a will to defend the central interests of Europe. If there is no majority voting, then the same level of impotence will continue.“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech to the European Parliament (23 October 1991), quoted in The Times (24 October 1991), p. 14
President of the European Commission

„[Greek voices] must not only be heard claiming their due but also contributing to the European Union.“

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— Jacques Delors

On EU aid to Greece, quoted in The Times (21 December 1993), p. 13
President of the European Commission

„[Only federalism] allows democratic control and can punish abuses of power. Only federalism can guarantee respect for national character and regional variety. ... The springtime of Europe is still before us.“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech to the European Parliament (19 January 1995), quoted in The Times (20 January 1995), p. 11
President of the European Commission

„The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in.“

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— Jacques Delors

On American attitudes to the Common Agricultural Policy (7 December 1990), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 172.

„If we do not succeed with political union...then the historic decline of Europe which began with the First World War will resume.“

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— Jacques Delors

Interview with Der Spiegel, quoted in The Times (14 October 1991), p. 1
President of the European Commission

„Farmers have their dignity, just as others do. It is fine to make efforts to make them react to markets, but you cannot then tie their hands and take away their choices. That is putting them in a straitjacket. ... I have always felt that the Community should be able to say 'No' to its big brother“

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— Jacques Delors

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On GATT, quoted in The Times (16 October 1992), p. 9
President of the European Commission

„Europe is a commercial giant and an economic power of the first rank, but it is a political dwarf. Political cooperation in the Community will grow. The question is whether the supply services will follow.“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech to the press (3 December 1980), quoted in The Times (4 December 1980), p. 5
Member of the European Parliament

„Cars are free to circulate but still there are speed limits, therefore I do not see why, at the international level, we should not study ways to limit monetary movements. Bankers cannot act at will. ... Why should we not draw up some rules of the game?“

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— Jacques Delors

Speech to the European Parliament (17 September 1993), quoted in The Times (18 September 1993), p. 23
President of the European Commission

„He thinks I am the man of the past but I am still here. He is the man of the past.“

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— Jacques Delors

Remarks on British Prime Minister John Major (28 September 1993), quoted in The Times (29 September 1993), p. 1
President of the European Commission

„My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests…responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.“

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— Jacques Delors

Remarks on French television. (23 January 1990), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 135.