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Article: Toujours Delors? (Jacques Delors, European Commission president) (Editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1992
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The case for replacing the top Eurocrat
ONE of the few near-certainties in the European Community these days is that, at their Lisbon summit later this month, EC leaders will reappoint Jacques Delors to another spell as president of the European Commission. A pity. It is time for Mr Delors to go--though not for the reason that the likes of Britain's Bruges brigade have been baying for his blood.
Mr Delors has been the most successful boss the commission has had. Before taking the job in 1985, he identified an EC-wide market as the right policy to push; Project 1992 relaunched the Community. His five-year budget deal in 1988 ended the exhausting annual haggle ...