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Jacques Delors: Father of the European Union
3 years ago(FILES) President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors attends a meeting in Bordeaux on October 29, 1987. - Former EU Commission president Jacques Delors died on December 27, 2023, announced Lille's mayor and daughter Martine Aubry to AFP. (Photo by René JEAN / AFP)
Given how crucial regional cooperation is to Africa where intra-regional trade is a paltry 14 per cent, there was a surprisingly muted response to the recent death, at 98, of one of last century’s greatest architects of regional integration: Jacques Delors, the former President of the European Commission (1985-1994).
