Jacques Delors: Quotes about the world

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“The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in.”

Jacques Delors

On American attitudes to the Common Agricultural Policy (7 December 1990), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 172.

“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

“The social and human balance of our societies depend on the farming world.”

Jacques Delors

Speech to the European Parliament (23 January 1991), quoted in The Times (24 January 1991), p. 13
President of the European Commission