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...