former president of the European Commission, Jacques DelorsHe died this Wednesday at the age of 98, his daughter Matine Aubry told the AFP agency. delors, ‘father’ Europe’s single currency is the euroAnd Erasmus student exchange programThe socialist mayor of the city of Lille announced that he died “while sleeping at his home in Paris.”
Delors also key figure of the French leftAlthough he has never held responsible positions in his country. In fact, one of his most famous moments was when he refused to top the socialist lists in the 1995 presidential election on a television show in front of 13 million viewers. He justified this by saying that he did not want to interfere with his daughter’s fledgling political career.
He was given the award in 1989 Prince of Asturias Awards International Cooperation In 1998 he received the Catalonia International Prize given by the Generalitat.