Former EU （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 大統領 Jacques Delors dies at 98
By Richard Lough and Dominique Vidalon
PARIS, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Former European （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 大統領 Jacques Delors, a 設立するing father of the European Union's historic 選び出す／独身 通貨 事業／計画（する）, died on Wednesday at the age of 98.
Delors, an ardent 支持する of 戦後の European 統合，差別撤廃, served as 大統領，／社長 of the European （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限, the EU (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, for three 条件 - longer than any other 支えるもの／所有者 of the office - from January 1985 until the end of 1994.
During Delors' dynamic １０年間 as （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 長，指導者, the EU 完全にするd its 統合するd 選び出す／独身 market and agreed to introduce a 選び出す／独身 通貨 and build a ありふれた foreign and 安全 政策.
The then 12-nation 圏 also 始める，決める the 条件s on his watch for 結局 admitting the ex-共産主義者 明言する／公表するs of central and eastern Europe after the 落ちる of the Berlin 塀で囲む in 1989.
His daughter, ツバメ Aubry, the 社会主義者 市長 of Lille, told AFP that her father died in his sleep at his Parisian home.
French 大統領 Emmanuel Macron paid 尊敬の印 to his compatriot as an "inexhaustible architect of our Europe" and a 闘士，戦闘機 for human 司法（官）.
Michel Barnier, the European Union's 長，指導者 交渉者 during Britain's 離婚 from the EU, said Delors had been an inspiration and a 推論する／理由 to "believe in a '確かな idea' of politics, of フラン, and of Europe".
Delors, a 信頼できる 連邦主義者, was a 熱烈な defender of an "ever closer union" who at the 舵輪／支配 of the EU (n)役員／(a)執行力のある frequently 衝突／不一致d with Britain's then-首相, Margaret Thatcher, who vigorously 押し進めるd 支援する against any 転換 of 力／強力にする to Brussels.
Delors' 計画（する）s for 通貨の union led The Sun tabloid in Britain to famously run a 前線 pa ge headline in 1990 reading "Up Yours Delors."
The 告示 of Delors' death （機の）カム hours after news broke of the passing of Wolfgang Schaeuble, whose career in the German 議会 spanned more than half a century, during which he helped 安全な・保証する his country's place at the heart of Europe.
In an interview to 示す the 50th 周年記念日 of the 設立するing 条約 of Rome in March 2007, Delors told Reuters he worried the EU could unravel within 20 years unless it 改革（する）d its 会・原則s to 簡素化する its 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making.
A little over two １０年間s later, Britain やめる the 圏. 連邦主義者s still 警告する that planned その上の enlargement, perhaps as far east as ウクライナ共和国, 危険s bringing 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making to a grinding 停止（させる） if deeper 改革（する）s are not 制定するd.
にもかかわらず, Delors at the time 表明するd pride in the EU's 記録，記録的な／記録する of spreading peace, 繁栄, 僕主主義 and the 支配する of 法律 on a continent scarred by war, 独裁政治 and 残虐（行為）s.
"Jacques Delors was a visionary who made Europe stronger," European （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 大統領 Ursula 出身の der Leyen said.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Richard Lough and Dominique Vidalon in Paris; 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru Editing by Tomasz Janowski, 示す Heinrich and Rosalba O'Brien)
