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Tag: Jacques Delors

Attali: A federal Europe is the only crisis exit strategy - 18 April 2012 - Interview

The only way to save the euro and get Europe out the crisis while maintaining people’s living standards is to change EU treaties to have a more integrated union, Jacques Attali said in an exclusive interview with EurActiv.

Delors points the finger at Europe's 'killers' - 29 March 2012 - News

Jacques Delors, the former European Commission president widely seen as one of the 'fathers of Europe', said yesterday (28 March) that EU leaders were "killing Europe", replacing the community method by inter-governmental solutions and nationalism, with the complicity of the Union's institutions. 

Father of Europe contemplates his broken family - 08 February 2012 - News

Jacques Delors, former European Commission president, and José Manuel Barroso, the current chief of the EU executive, both regretted the national "resistance" and "lack of spirit of cooperation" amongst the leaders of the 27 EU countries in dealing with the bloc's debt crises.

Delors: 'Superficial' Franco-German engine needs kick-start - 07 April 2011 - News

In an exclusive interview with EurActiv, former European Commission President Jacques Delors said Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy maintain a "superficial" alliance which needs to be "rebuilt" – a goal for which he is offering a helping hand.

Delors: Franco-German alliance is EU’s ‘tree of life’ - 07 April 2011 - Interview

Unlike their illustrious predecessors, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy maintain a "superficial" alliance, former European Commission President Jacques Delors told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.

Delors backs competitiveness pact - 01 March 2011 - News

A few weeks after France and Germany tabled proposals for a competitiveness pact among eurozone countries, Jacques Delors supported their political move and backed rewards for good budgetary behaviour.

Delors asks Germany: ‘Are you still true to EU values?’ - 08 October 2010 - News

Without naming German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jacques Delors, who is known as one of the 'fathers of Europe', posed the question yesterday (7 October) of whether the EU's biggest country - which reunited twenty years ago - is still interested in the European project.

EU negotiator: 'Main difficulty of German reunification was its speed' - 04 October 2010 - Interview

East and West Germany reunified on 3 October 1990, less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The historic event was described as an "[EU] enlargement without accession" by EU diplomats. Carlo Trojan, the European Commission's chief negotiator on Germany's reunification, describes the events in an exclusive interview with EurActiv Germany.

'Imperial' Barroso urged to have 'vision' for second mandate - 11 February 2010 - News

As José Manuel Barroso begins his second term as European Commission president, he should keep in mind the Portuguese 'Carnation Revolution', Tom Spencer, executive director of the European Centre for Public Affairs, told EurActiv in an interview.

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