THE former EU Commission president Jacques Delors has died at the age of 98.
Delors was the eighth president of the European Commission from January 1985 until the end of 1994.
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His daughter Martine Aubry said he died in his sleep in his Paris home on Wednesday.
He created the single market that made the free movement of persons, capital, goods, and services within the European Economic Community (EEC) possible.
He also headed the so-called Delors Committee which proposed the monetary union to create the Euro, a new single currency to replace individual national currencies.
Delors was the focus of one of The Sun’s classic headlines which read: “UP YOURS DELORS”.
In 1990, The Sun under Kelvin MacKenzie was voicing its view about the European common currency and more powers for the European Parliament being sought by then European Commission President Delors.
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