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| | 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. |
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