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Former European Commission President Jacques Delors waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, on February 7, 2012
FORMER EU leader Jacques Delors died in Paris on Wednesday aged 98.
As president of the European Commission between 1985 and 1995, Mr Delors led efforts to tear down barriers that prevented the free movement of capital, goods, services and people across the EU.
He previously served as French finance minister in Francois Mitterrand’s Socialist Party government.
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