Jacques Delors: Politics

Jacques Delors is French economist and politician. Explore interesting quotes on politics.
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“My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests…responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.”

Jacques Delors

Remarks on French television. (23 January 1990), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 135.

“We must define the political Europe that we want. We must plead for the federal approach.”

Jacques Delors

Speech in Lorient (29 August 1993), quoted in The Times (30 August 1993), p. 11
President of the European Commission

“If we are really on the way towards a political entity with a common foreign policy on basic issues, then I consider that France's nuclear force should be available to serve that policy.”

Jacques Delors

On French television (5 January 1992), quoted in The Times (6 January 1992), p. 11
President of the European Commission

“If we do not succeed with political union...then the historic decline of Europe which began with the First World War will resume.”

Jacques Delors

Interview with Der Spiegel, quoted in The Times (14 October 1991), p. 1
President of the European Commission

“Europe is a commercial giant and an economic power of the first rank, but it is a political dwarf. Political cooperation in the Community will grow. The question is whether the supply services will follow.”

Jacques Delors

Speech to the press (3 December 1980), quoted in The Times (4 December 1980), p. 5
Member of the European Parliament