On Friday 5 January, France and the institutions of the European Union paid tribute to Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission between 1985 and 1995 and former French Minister of the Economy and Finance, who died at the end of December 2023 at the age of 98 (see EUROPE B13320A1).
French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Mr Delors as a “European of integrity” whose work at the head of the EU institution helped to shape “the face of Europe today”, in a speech delivered...