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Article: Santer runs for European Parliament.(outgoing European Commission Pres. Jacques Santer)
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- May 1, 1999
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It would be wrong to say that Jacques Santer got a ticker-tape reception when he returned to his home country of Luxembourg after resigning as president of the European Commission in March. The Luxembourgers do not go in for hero worship. What Mr. Santer got was something altogether more to his taste - the kind of quiet, warm welcome home that a much-traveled member of the family might get after years abroad. Mr. Santer is extremely popular in Luxembourg, and while the media in other countries foamed and spluttered about his lack of leadership in Brussels, the Luxembourgers preferred to list his achievements, confident that the judgement of history would be in his favor.