A hard-driving French politician, Jacques Delors was the European Union’s executive for a decade and the chief architect of a more unified Europe and the father of Europe’s common currency, the euro.
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Jacques Delors, who has died aged 98, was a French intellectual, a socialist and one of the most effective and influential presidents of the Commission in the history of the EU; he was also, arguably, the man who did most to bring about the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.