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  Jacques Delors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born July 20, 1925, in Paris, France) is a French economist and politician, who served two terms as President of the European Commission from 1985-1995.
Delors became the President of the European Commission in 1985.
However Delors declined to run and the eventual Socialist nominee, Lionel Jospin, was defeated in the presidential election by Chirac.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Delors   (250 words)

  
 Delors, Jacques --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
French statesman Jacques-Lucien-Jean Delors was president of the European Communities (EC) Commission from 1985 to 1994.
The younger Delors began working for the bank in 1945 and later studied economics at the University of Paris.
The French composer Jacques Ibert is admired for his colorful, technically polished, and often witty neoclassical style.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310979?tocId=9310979   (722 words)

  
 Jacques Delors
Delors worked at the Banque de France from 1945 to 1962 and was a Member of its Advisory Board from 1973 to 1979.
In 1976, he was the Delegate for International Economic Affairs for the French Socialist Party (PSF), and from 1979 to 1981 he was a Member of Parliament and President of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.
Delors served as the Minister of the Economy and Finance from 1981-1984, helping to revive the French economy.
www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=154   (606 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jacques Delors (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jacques Delors (Jacques Lucien Jean Delors)[zhAk lOOsyaN´ zhAN dulOr´] Pronunciation Key 1925–;, French economist and politician and European statesman, president (1985–95) of the European Commission.
Under President FranCois Mitterrand, Delors served as economics and finance minister (1981–83) and economics, finance, and budget minister (1983–84), helping to revive the French economy.
Delors also oversaw the transformation of the EC into the EU, which moved the EC nations toward a single currency and greater cooperation on defense.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Delors-J.html   (285 words)

  
 Notre Europe : Jacques Delors focuses on solidarity and differentiation
Delors was at pains to stress his delight at EU enlargement, along with "doubts" at the "dialectic between enlargement and deepening".
Giving the minister two hats is a good idea, said Delors, adding that he dreamed of the Solanas and Prodis of the future putting everything in the same hands so that the EU can use all its trump cards and instruments in external affairs, the way countries do.
Delors wanted the EU to speak with a single voice in bodies like the IMF and the World Bank, saying there should be something like a relatively fixed exchange rate between hard currencies and it was not right that Europe should be a total victim of fluctuations in the dollar.
www.notre-europe.asso.fr /article.php3?id_article=452   (799 words)

  
 The Hon. Jacques Delors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jacques Delors is one of the most influential politicians in the formation of the Europe of the Nineties.
Jacques Delors became the president of the European Commission in 1985.
During his time at the head of the Commission, there was a major development of its structures, with the reinforcement of European Community financial systems (the White Paper for a single internal market), the signing of the treaty of adhesion with Spain and Portugal, and the creation of the Euro as the single European currency.
www.un.org /Dialogue/delors.html   (167 words)

  
 Jacques Delors
Jacques Delors' time as President of the European Commission (1885-1995) was a period which saw great changes and unprecedented development towards European Union.
Born in Paris in 1925, Delors immediately entered the world of finance working in the Banque de France.
After the approval of the Paquet Delors, Delors started to focus on the subject of Economic and Monetary Union, producing a three stage scheme that was eventually ratified as part of the Maastricht Treaty.
www.historiasiglo20.org /pioneers/delors.htm   (226 words)

  
 Delors UNESCO Conference 1998 - M Jacques Delors
M Jacques Delors, Chair of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century
M Jacques Delors was scheduled to be a major speaker at the UNESCO Melbourne Conference.
Mr Delors, just two years ago, you delivered to UNESCO the report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century.
www.dfat.gov.au /intorgs/unesco/unesconf/delors.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Learning the Treasure Within by Jacques Delors, UNESCO, 1996
Monsieur Delors regards "education as an ongoing process of improving knowledge and skills, it is also perhaps primarily an exceptional means of bringing about personal development and building relationships among individuals, groups and nations."
Not unlike our -grown concept of the overload of curricula, Delors also points out the dilemma education faces, i.e., when children and adolescents should be care free, they are worried about future.
Delors repeats the off-cited concept of broadening international cooperation in the global village.
www.educationforallinindia.com /page80.html   (2733 words)

  
 Jacques Delors - Helen Drake - Microsoft Reader eBook
Jacques Delors became a household name during his decade as President of the European Commission.
Drake traces the development of Delors' thinking and expertise on European integration, and draws on his public life after the European Commission for additional perspectives on his Commission presidency.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with Delors, this comprehensive, accessibly written study of his life and Commission presidency is an invaluable resource for students of all levels in European and French Politics, as well as the general reader.
www.ebookmall.com /ebook/76681-ebook.htm   (521 words)

  
 NBI-UNESCO Symposium; RoundTable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is our hope that this debate can contribute to a better understanding of the role of science and we consequently aim at a form that can be potentially interesting to wider circles and invite discussion in the media.
In tune with this idea we have asked M. Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission, to act as moderator for the debate.
Jacques Delors apart from being a well known political figure who has played a central role in shaping the present Europe, is also an associate of UNESCO and has shown a deep interest in education and science.
www.nbi.dk /unescosymp/Roundtable.html   (179 words)

  
 Conversation with Guenter Burghardt, p. 2 of 4
The real turning point for me came both in terms of career and in terms of political events in the mid-eighties, when I was chosen by the then-president of the Commission, Jacques Delors, a Frenchman, a Socialist, as his Deputy Chief of Staff.
In this case, Jacques Delors and the commissions he presided over had put in the visionary commitment, but also outlined the way to do it.
He was the one who came up with the objective, which was called 1992, which was to complete the whole of the economic integration process, crowned by the introduction of the single currency.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people2/Burghardt/burghardt-con2.html   (1285 words)

  
 KeepMedia | Newsweek: Unity After The Euro?
If you call Jacques Delors the father of the euro, he tries to be modest.
But he's the man. In the 1980s, as head of the European Commission, Delors wrestled the Continent's politicians and central bankers into line for the creation of a single market with a common currency.
For Europe to build on the euro's success, said Delors, "there's got to be vision, and heart, and pragmatism," none of which he sees in great abundance on the Continental scene today.
keepmedia.com /pubs/Newsweek/2002/01/14/309952?extID=10037&oliID=229   (254 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I was delighted to have the opportunity to meet with two friends, the EC Council President Jacques Santer and Commission President Jacques Delors.
Jacques Delors, and myself, in my capacity as President of the European Council, to the White House for a mutual exchange of ideas.
It is the very first time that the President of the United States receives both the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission in the new context created by the Transatlantic Declaration of November 1990.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1991/91041101.html   (933 words)

  
 Jacques Delors Biography / Biography of Jacques Delors Biography Biography
The French president of the European Commission, Jacques Delors (born 1925) was former minister for the economy and finance of France.
The son of an employee of the French Central Bank, Jacques Delors was born in Paris on July 20, 1925.
In 1943 Delors studied law at the University of Clermont-Ferrand.
www.bookrags.com /biography-jacques-delors/index.html   (237 words)

  
 Europe: Mr. Europe's legacy. (Jacques Delors, former European Commission president)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Europe, as he was the driving force behind closer integration during his 10-year tenure as president of the European Commission (EC) between 1985 and 1995.
Delors is a socialist trade unionist who worked for a Gaullist prime minister, Jacques Chaban-Delamas.
The former EC president's contribution to the cause of a united Europe is believed to serve as a challenge to the founding fathers of the European Community.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18789748&...   (173 words)

  
 danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: FRENCH PRAISE FOR BLAIR AND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission, has become one of the first senior French public figures to warn that President Jacques Chirac is leading France into a diplomatic cul-de-sac over Iraq.
Mr Delors believes the Iraq crisis has highlighted the problems of forging a common EU foreign policy out of divergent national interests, warning that such a concept is a vain hope 'in the next 20 years'.
Delors' critique of fiscal policy is an implicit shot at the Chirac government, which has declared it won't honor the Maastricht criteria.
www.danieldrezner.com /archives/000234.html   (529 words)

  
 EURSOC: Delors: Euro, EU In Crisis
Former European commission president Jacques Delors says that Britain was right to not sign up for the single currency.
The former president, whose Eurofanaticism inspired the immortal Sun headline "Up Yours, Delors", told The Times that the EU had failed to take advantage of the Euro and had lost its way.
Delors says that Brown's 'hatred' of Europe makes the chances of British entry very slim indeed.
eursoc.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/246/Delors:_Euro,_EU_In_Crisis.html   (307 words)

  
 ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - Jacques Delors: Mensch und Methode = Jacques Delors: Man and Method. IHS Political ...
Jacques Delors: Mensch und Methode = Jacques Delors: Man and Method.
This working paper, which is based on a lecture at the Institute of Advanced Studies, focuses on the work of a great European: Jacques Delors.
Although he focuses on biographical details and on the economic-political background of the politics of the "Delors-Commission," he describes in a very convincing manner the visions of Jacques Delors and what became of them.
aei.pitt.edu /archive/00000279   (168 words)

  
 The European: Will EMU stall without its driving force? (Jacques Delors, President of European Commission, and decision ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(Jacques Delors, President of European Commission, and decision not to stand for French presidency) (Column)
FOR the French socialists, who see their chances of a victory in the forthcoming presidential contest slipping away, and for supporters of a faster European integration, the unexpected exit of European Union president Jacques Delors from the race to the Elysee palace is a disastrous turn of events.
Jean-Frangois Mercier of Salomon Brothers, said: "The withdrawal of Jacques Delors from the presidential race could increase near-term financial market uncertainty and raise risk premiums on French...
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28609315&...   (208 words)

  
 Jacques Delors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born July 20, 1925) is a French economist and politician, who served three terms as President of the European Commission (January 1985 - 1995).
During his presidency, he oversaw important budgetary reforms and the introduction of a single market within the European Community, which came into effect on January 1, 1993.
This page was last modified 00:07, 15 May 2005.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jacques_Delors   (150 words)

  
 Ian Black: Inside Europe
It was a real blast from the past to hear Jacques Delors the other day holding forth about prospects for the new EU constitution.
It was a real blast from the past to hear Jacques Delors the other day holding forth about prospects for the new EU constitution, the disarray of the French Socialists and, more surprisingly, his understanding of British reservations about pooling sovereignty with continental Europeans.
Delors feels the project he did so much to shape is not going well.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/10-12-2003-46431.asp   (662 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President Bush met today with European Community Commission President Jacques Delors to discuss the development of relations between the United States and the European Community, an important part of U.S. relations with Europe.
President Delors described the Community's continuing political and economic integration and the Community's developing relations with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
President Bush reiterated to Commission President Delors that the United States is firmly committed to improving the multilateral trading system and strengthening the GATT through agreements reached during the Uruguay round GATT negotiations scheduled to conclude in Brussels next December, and that the cooperation of the European Community is essential, particularly in the agricultural area.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1990/90042402.html   (281 words)

  
 An Essay on Values
Jacques Delors has been called the first fully European politician; one who has inaugurated a new kind of public man, a new way to fashion History
The gift of self, prayer, meditation and otherness are vital contributions to the emergence of a new type of citizenship and to the discovery of the meaning of all life.
Born in Paris in 1925, Jacques Delors joned the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) in France as a youth and later a Christian trades union.
www.aimintl.org /anglais/bulletin70/04.htm   (5827 words)

  
 Unesco Jacques Delors website Education for the Twenty-first Century: Education: The Treasure Within
Unesco Jacques Delors website Education for the Twenty-first Century: Education: The Treasure Within
On this website you can download the Highlights of the report and the introduction by the president of the Commission, Jacques Delors.
The background and history of the Commission is also presented here for those who are interested in the process leading up to the report.
www.unesco.org /delors   (351 words)

  
 Delors, Jacques --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
in full Jacques Lucien Jean Delors French statesman who was president of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Community (EC), from 1985 to 1995.
The son of a courier at the Banque de France, Delors himself joined the bank in 1945, later earning a degree in economics from the Sorbonne.
"Delors, Jacques." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9029849?tocId=9029849   (717 words)

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