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Article: Jacques as Jeremiah. (European Commission president Jacques Delors)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 19, 1993
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WHEN the European Community was a success in the late 1980s, the European Commission took credit for driving it forward and the commission's president, Jacques Delors, became a symbol of European unity. The EC's stumbles over the past two years have shaken the stuffing out the commission and Mr Delors. "I have lost authority, because the construction of Europe was too personalized on me," he says.
Neither the Danes' approval of the Maastricht treaty nor the election victory of his friend, Felipe Gonzalez, has lifted Mr Delors out of this gloom. He told The Economist there are three obstacles to the restoration of the EC's fortunes--and, by implication, of his own.
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