On American attitudes to the Common Agricultural Policy (7 December 1990), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 172.
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Jacques Delors: Frases en inglés
Speech to the British Trades Union Congress (8 September 1988), quoted in The Independent (9 September 1988).
Speech in Maastricht (8 December 1991), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 200.
Remarks on French television. (23 January 1990), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 135.
Speech to the European Parliament (19 January 1995), quoted in The Times (20 January 1995), p. 11
President of the European Commission
L'Unité d'un Homme (November 1994), quoted in The Times (21 November 1994), p. 11
President of the European Commission
L'Unité d'un Homme (November 1994), quoted in The Times (21 November 1994), p. 11
President of the European Commission
Speech to a Trades Union Congress conference in London (31 August 1994), quoted in The Times (1 September 1994), p. 25
President of the European Commission
Speech to the European Parliament (4 May 1994), quoted in The Times (5 May 1994), p. 1
President of the European Commission
On EU aid to Greece, quoted in The Times (21 December 1993), p. 13
President of the European Commission
“He thinks I am the man of the past but I am still here. He is the man of the past.”
Remarks on British Prime Minister John Major (28 September 1993), quoted in The Times (29 September 1993), p. 1
President of the European Commission
Speech to the European Parliament (17 September 1993), quoted in The Times (18 September 1993), p. 23
President of the European Commission
“We must define the political Europe that we want. We must plead for the federal approach.”
Speech in Lorient (29 August 1993), quoted in The Times (30 August 1993), p. 11
President of the European Commission
America
On GATT, quoted in The Times (16 October 1992), p. 9
President of the European Commission
On French television (5 January 1992), quoted in The Times (6 January 1992), p. 11
President of the European Commission
Speech to the European Parliament (23 October 1991), quoted in The Times (24 October 1991), p. 14
President of the European Commission
Interview with Der Spiegel, quoted in The Times (14 October 1991), p. 1
President of the European Commission
“The social and human balance of our societies depend on the farming world.”
Speech to the European Parliament (23 January 1991), quoted in The Times (24 January 1991), p. 13
President of the European Commission
Speech to the European Parliament (6 July 1988), quoted in The Times (7 July 1988), p. 1
President of the European Commission
“Socialism was not the socialization of losses and the privatization of profits.”
Speech (26 June 1981), quoted in The Times (27 June 1981), p. 17
French Minister of Finance
Speech to the press (3 December 1980), quoted in The Times (4 December 1980), p. 5
Member of the European Parliament
“Europe needs an army to fight the resource wars of the twenty-first century.”
Variations of this have circulated among Irish and left-wing Eurosceptic groups. Delors explicitly denied making any such statement in 1992 and 1998 in the leadup to Irish referendums on the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties. Commentators have found no evidence for it. <br class="br">Attributions: <br class="br">[Facing the threat of Brussels rule at our expense, https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1991/1121/Pg014.html#Ar01400, 30 July 2019, The Irish Times, 21 November 1991, 14, subscription, Anthony, Coughlan] <br class="br">[Proinsias, de Rossa, https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1991-11-29/3/#para_191, 29 November 1991, Dáil Éireann debates, Maastricht Summit: Motion] <br class="br">[Maastricht and neutrality : Ireland's neutrality and the future of Europe, John, Maguire, Joe, Noonan, 1992, Cork, People First/Meitheal, 19–20] <br class="br">[Fox, Carol, Gearing up, 25554848, Fortnight, 1994, 334, 11–12: 12, 0141-7762] <br class="br">[Joe, Higgins, https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-10-16/24/#para_608, 16 October 1997, Dáil Éireann debates, Amsterdam Treaty: Statements (Resumed)] <br class="br"> Edward, Spalton, 4 July 2004, (Letter) Fashion statement, Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/3608033/Fashion-statement.html, <br class="br"> John, Boyd, Campaign Against European Federalism, Europe for Peace Conference, Manchester, 5 March 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20070809083941/http://www.gmdcnd.org.uk/events/europeconference/amC.htm, <br class="br">[Gibson, Dirk C., Commercial Space Tourism: Impediments to Industrial Development and Strategic Communication Solutions, 2012, Bentham Science Publishers, 9781608052394, 12, https://books.google.ie/books?id=hSkW9TW3omEC&pg=PA12, 21 July 2019] <br class="br"> The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements, EU Counter Summit Statement, London, 7 November 2015 http://teameurope.co/statements.html, <br class="br">[The financial cost of signing up to PESCO, https://people.ie/news/PN-178.pdf, People's News, People's Movement, Dublin, 178, 20 December 2017] <br class="br"> Morning Star, Macron calls for joint EU army project to step up a gear, 27 August 2018 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/macron-calls-joint-eu-army-project-step-gear, <br class="br">Refutations: <br class="br"> The Irish Times, subscription, 12 June 1992, 12, Colm, Boland, 'Interference' by Delors denounced https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1992/0612/Pg007.html#Ar00701, <br class="br">[30001811, Ireland's Foreign Relations in 1992, Patrick, Keatinge, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 4, 1993, 72 [footnote]] <br class="br"> McKenna's case not a Euromyth, 15 May 1998, Patrick, Smyth, The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/mckenna-s-case-not-a-euromyth-1.152890, <br class="br">Misattributed
