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Article: Zut Delors. (European Commission Pres Jacques Delors)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 24, 1992
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IT HAS been rough going of late for Jacques Delors, the president of the European Commission, as he comes to the end of his eighth and toughest year in the job. In the glory days of the late 1980s, when the single maket dominated play, Mr Delors took much of the credit for the EC's suggess. Now that the whole enterprise has got bogged down, much of the blame sticks to him. Earlier this year, the EC's leaders reappointed Mr Delors until December 1994. Yet if the Maastricht treaty unravelled, or if france beckoned, he could leave Brussels much sooner.
Critics are finding fault with him on several issues. In april Mr Delors was arguing that the arrival of ...