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Death of Jacques Delors: what is the political legacy of the former president of the European Commission?
Death of Jacques Delors: what is the political legacy of the former president of the European Commission? – (France 2)
Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission, died on Wednesday December 27 at the age of 98. Present on the 8 Heures set on Thursday, political journalist Alexandre Peyrout looks back on what he has implemented in the European Union.
Figure of the social democratic left, the former president of the European Commission Jacques Delors died on Wednesday December 27, at the age of 98. “If we know Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman as the founding fathers of the European Union, we can say today that Jacques Delors was in a way the founding son, the one who continued their work during his ten years as President of the European Commission”indicates France Télévisions political journalist Alexandre Peyrout, present Thursday on the 8 Heures set.
Margaret Thatcher, “her fiercest opponent”
In the European Union, Jacques Delors “many achievements to his credit: the Schengen area, the Treaty of Maastricht, the common agricultural policy and above all the road towards our single currency”continues the journalist. “However, there are certain Europeans among whom Jacques Delors was not unanimous at the time, among them our neighbors in the United Kingdom, where there was his fiercest opponent, a certain Margaret Thatcher”says Alexandre Peyrout.
