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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12615

4 December 2020
INSTITUTIONAL / Tribute
EU leaders pay tribute to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, father of European Council
03/12/2020 (Agence Europe)

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, hailed “the leading role in Europe” played by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who died on Wednesday 2 December from Covid-19 at the age of 94.

Together with former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he had “made the dream of a more integrated Europe a reality”, he said. Mr Giscard d’Estaing was at the origin of the European Council, discussions first being held ‘around the fireside’ after 1974.

He was...

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