ER Editor: The deaths of two ‘Europeanists’ within a day of each other, i.e. two who have been serving modern day ‘globalism’ all along under a different name, are causing some enlightenment about the past among informed citizens.
We do have to wonder about this curious 1-2 timing of their deaths. We know full well that deaths of prominent people are usually announced at some politically convenient time after the fact.
Both men – Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schauble – were finance ministers in the French and German governments of their day; both supported all the political and financial integration that we are suffering from today as part of a ‘Europe’ where nation states have been losing their sovereignty more and more. A bloc of powerless states suffering from impoverishment, job loss and mass immigration, forced to use a currency (euro) that national governments have had no control over. Greece was a country trashed by the policies of these men.
Both were from opposite sides of the left-right fence, but we now know those terms to have been meaningless all along.
#Delors traitre (Delors traitor) has been trending on Twitter/X in French
🇪🇺 Bad omen for Europeanists in 2024
Two of the main people responsible for the European Union and the creation of the euro – both ultra-Europeanists and recipients of the “Charlemagne Prize” – have just died on both sides of the Rhine within a few hours of each other.🔥⏰⚖️ pic.twitter.com/zCB6uCijEw— France Résistance (@FranceRsistanc1) December 28, 2023
Translation: I will not talk about the man I did not know and I offer my condolences to his loved ones. But finally, from the point of view of political results, the work of Jacques #Delors is an absolute catastrophe! It’s been dripping with complacency on all the airwaves since last night while Jacques Delors was notably: – the turning point in austerity in 1983/1984 already in the name of the European Monetary System. A “parenthesis” never closed, to put in place a system that would crush us… – the Single Act which liberalized the movements of capital and people. We are paying a high price for it today. Then Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, the YES to the TCE in 2005,… – the Euro: the biggest serial killer in all of European construction! He massacred our industry, our jobs, our purchasing power, our exports, our people’s freedoms, our national independence. Jacques Delors did not serve France, he served an ideology. An ideology that is killing France a little more every day and from which we urgently need to get out!
Je ne parlerai pas de l’homme que je ne connaissais pas et je présente mes condoléances à ses proches.
Mais enfin, du point de vue du bilan politique, l’œuvre de Jacques #Delors est une catastrophe absolue ! Ça dégouline de complaisance sur toutes les ondes depuis hier soir… pic.twitter.com/OLhUKAO6K5
— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) December 28, 2023
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Architect of euro dies aged 98
Jacques Delors headed the European Commission from 1985 to 1995 and served as France’s finance minister
RT
Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, who is regularly described as the creator of the EU single market, has died in his Paris home at the age of 98, AFP has reported, citing his daughter Martine Aubry.
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The French socialist, who was an ardent advocate of European integration after World War II, Delors had made a high-profile political career in his country, where he served as finance minister from 1981 to 1984. He was also an MEP in the European Parliament between 1979 and 1981.
The politician headed the Commission of the European Communities, renamed the European Commission in 1985, and served as its president for three terms until the end of 1994, longer than any other holder of the office. Under his leadership the bloc finalized the integrated single market and agreed to introduce a single currency, the euro.
Under Delors’ tenure the EU created the Schengen agreement for travel within Europe, as well as the Erasmus program for student exchanges. After leaving his post in the Commission, he opted out of standing for the French presidency, despite a strong lead in the polls.
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Delors on Wednesday via X, formerly Twitter, hailing him as an “inexhaustible craftsman of our Europe” and “a fighter for human justice.”
“Jacques Delors was all these things. His commitment, his ideals and his uprightness will always inspire us. I salute his work and his memory and share the grief of his family,” Macron stated.
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Veteran politician who helped Germany reunify dies
Wolfgang Schaeuble, an influential member of the CDU party who also served as finance minister during the euro debt crisis, has died
RT
Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former president of the German parliament, has passed away at the age of 81 after a political career spanning more than 50 years. The veteran Christian-Democratic politician, who held several key positions, including finance minister, played a significant role in shaping Germany’s political landscape.
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Schaeuble’s family announced his death on Tuesday evening at his residence in Offenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, surrounded by his relatives. He is said to have battled an undisclosed chronic illness.
Senior German officials and those from abroad have offered their condolences and starkly divergent opinions on the politician’s legacy.
Сhancellor Olaf Scholz noted in a message on X (formerly Twitter) that Schaeuble had “shaped our country for more than half a century.” With his passing, Germany lost a “sharp thinker” and a “strident democrat.”
Scholz’s predecessor in office, Angela Merkel, who had Schaeuble serving in her cabinet, said in a statement that he possessed “political and programmatic foresight.” She recounted how, in her fledgling career as a minister, she saw Schaeuble as a “political teacher.”
“We will miss Wolfgang Schaeuble’s voice in Germany, I will personally miss his advice,” the ex-chancellor added.
Meanwhile, Yanis Varoufakis, who served as finance minister under Greece’s left-wing government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in 2015, argued in a statement that the German politician was responsible for the “impoverishment of Greece and… the current de-industrialization of Germany and Europe’s slide into geopolitical insignificance.”
The Greek economist, referring to Schaeuble’s time as Germany’s finance minister, concluded that “history will judge him harshly.”
Schaeuble’s political career began in 1972 when he was first elected as a member of parliament for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. He led the CDU in the Bundestag from 1991 to 2000. In 2017, he assumed the role of Bundestag president until 2021, retaining a ceremonial role as the oldest parliament member until his passing.
Apart from his parliamentary duties, Schaeuble served as minister for special affairs and head of the chancellery under Helmut Kohl in the 1980s. He also held the position of interior minister, notably signing the German Unification Treaty in 1990, a pivotal moment in the country’s history. He was reappointed as interior minister again in 2005 by then-Chancellor Merkel.
Speaking to the Tagesspiegel media outlet, Schaeuble once recounted that the “basic conception of the Unification Treaty was my idea.” That same year, the politician survived an assassination attempt that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
As finance minister between 2009 and 2017, he spearheaded Chancellor Merkel’s government’s strict financial policies in the wake of the 2008 global crisis.
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