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Delors

(dəˈlɔː)
n
(Biography) Jacques (Lucien Jean). born 1925, French politician and economist, President of the European Commission (1985–94): originator of the Delors plan for closer European union
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To be precise, we need to go back 31 years to a speech at the Trades Union Congress in Bournemouth by then European Commission President Jacques Delors. At the time Delors was entering the lion's den.
BIRTHDAYS: Jacques Delors, European politician, 94; Dame Diana Rigg, actress, 81; Kim Carnes, singer, 74; Carlos Santana, rock musician, 72; Paul Cook, rock drummer (Sex Pistols), 63; Charlie Magri, former boxer, 63; Jonathon Morris, actor, 59; Anton du Beke, ballroom dancer, 53; Josh Holloway, actor, 50.
Sao esses documentos, como o relatorio intitulado Educacao: um tesouro a descobrir (Delors, 1997), que avaliam os caminhos percorridos pela educacao mundial no seculo XX e lancam perspectivas e desafios para o seculo XXI.
Right at the beginning she should have stolen one of Kelvin MacKenzie's most famous headlines "Up Yours Delors", adding "we're off so what are YOU going to do for US?
Also in Bratislava, Kaljulaid was scheduled to participate in the Globsec international security forum, where she was to speak in a panel discussion on the future of Europe alongside Peter Kazimir, Slovakia's minister of finance, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, former prime minister of Poland, Yves Bertoncini, director of the Jacques Delors Institute, and Ivan Korcok, state secretary of the Slovakian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.
A bitter battle ensued within the Socialist leadership, with finance minister Jacques Delors leading the fight for austerity.
Reviving an idea originally put forward by former European Commission chief Jacques Delors, Hollande proposed "a government of the euro zone (with) a specific budget as well as a parliament to ensure its democratic control".
In July 2001 the White Paper on European Governance was produced, marking a key transition from Delors III to Barroso II.
HS2 is an integral part of the EU plan devised by Jacques Delors for the Trans-European Network (TEN's) which is to integrate all of Europe's transport and communications systems.
The committee that drafted the report -- now known as the Delors Report, after its chairman, Jacques Delors -- was a fundamentally rather conservative group of central bankers, with even the governor of the Bank of England (BoE) signing on.
The launch event, at the European Parliament from 9:00 to 18:00, will take the form of two interactive exchanges of views, one on the achievements of the single market, with the participation of the instigator of the Single Market Act, former European Commission President Jacques Delors, and another on ways to improve the economic and social environment for the general public and companies.