Jacques Delors started his career at the Banque de France in 1945. He worked there until 1962, and was a member of the Economic and Social Council. He became head of the social affairs department of the General Planning Committee until 1969 before being appointed General Secretary for Permanent Training and Social Promotion (1969-1973). He was a member of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas’s cabinet (1969-1972), then associate professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine (1974-1979) and director of the research centre ‘Work and Society’.
He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1979 and chaired the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee until May 1981. From May 1981 to July 1984, he was Minister of Economics and Finance and was elected, in the meantime, Mayor of Clichy (1983-1984).
Jacques Delors was president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995.
In October 1996, Jacques Delors founded the Jacques Delors Institute and is today its founding president. In May 2000 he was appointed president of the CERC (Conseil de l’emploi, des revenus et de la cohésion sociale) until July 2009.
From 1992 to 1996, he chaired UNESCO’s International Commission on Education for the 21st century.
He has been awarded the title of Docteur Honoris Causa by 24 universities and won various prizes and distinctions: Prix Jean Monnet (1988), Prix Louis Weiss (1989), Prix Prince des Asturies (1989), Prix Charlemagne (1992), Prix Carlos V (1995), Prix Erasme(1997), Prix de l’économie mondiale (2006). He received the Nijmegen medal of peace in the Netherlands on March 2010.
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Happy birthday and best wishes, Erasmus!

Message for the JDI’s 25th anniversary celebration. Thinking Europe as ours

Towards an individual right to adult learning for all europeans

Es ist Zeit

Making the Energy Transition a European Success

The Awakening

Yes, we are European!

Repair and Prepare: Growth and the Euro after Brexit

The EU and our collective security: stronger together!

EU security: a matter of political urgency

A new start for Social Europe

Schengen is dead? Long live Schengen!

After the Greek deal: why it is urgent to complete EMU

The EU and Greece: Changing frames and pursuing the Odyssey

Erasmus Pro: for a million “young European apprentices” by 2020

Jacques Delors discusses the Commission presidency and the EU’s institutional functioning

From the European Energy Community to the Energy Union

The EU needs a fresh boost… Fast!

From the European Energy Community to the Energy Union – A new Policy Proposal

Rural life in the 21st century, a beacon of hope for Europe

Post-election EU: Ask for the programme!

Engaging Europe in the world

Europe: union is an opportunity and a struggle!

European elections: full steam ahead!

Endowing the EMU with a Social Dimension

Germany and the EU : a new cycle?

Energy solidarity in Europe: from independence to interdependence

Rethinking the EMU and making Greater Europe positive again

Fear not, we will get there!

Europe between renewal and decline

Rebuilding Greater Europe

The European Energy Community is now !

Energy transitions and public dialogue: National and European perspectives

EU budget: the path to an agreement

EU and growth: three pacts rather than one

Enough Sauerkraut and Beer

Reform proposals for the euro zone

Consolidating the EMU, a vital task

The euro zone, core of a political union

The Single Market: cornerstone of the EU

For a new relaunch of the single market

Completing the Euro: A road map towards fiscal union in Europe

Seminar on the Community Method. Elements of Synthesis

Stability and growth: perfecting the new European pact

For a revival of Europe

Joint responses to energy challenges through a European Energy Community

The EU and the Arab Spring: a vision for our neighbours

The Maastricht Treaty 20 years on

Solidarity within the Eurozone: how much, what for, for how long?

President Barroso’s Road Map

“The euro, in historical and institutional terms”

“Europe is the solution, not the problem”

The Euro, the investors and the governance – Proceedings of the seminar in honour of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

The European Semester: only a first step

The Question of European Identity

“Towards a new European Energy Community” Joint Declaration by Jerzy Buzek and Jacques Delors

Reshaping EU-US Relations: A Concept Paper

The European Union after Lisbon: a three-part counterpoint

In the face of crisis, there is a need for Europe

Social experimentation in Europe: Towards a more complete and effective palette of the EU action for social innovation

Introduction to the debate on the future of Europe: Let’s go back to basics

Lack of Economic Growth and Unemployment: the cost of non coopération

The Netherlands 2004 presidency of the EU

Greece, the European Union and the 2003 Presidency

Leading from behind: Britain and the European Constitutional Treaty

20 years of Jean Monnet Committee (1955-1975)

Letter to our European friends who want to Vote not

USA/EU: towards a Confidence Pact

Governments and International Institutions with the Debt of the Countries of the South

European “avant-garde”, a new centre of gravity for Europe

Forgiveness and the Promise. The Heritage of Robert Schuman

Intervention of Jacques Delors during the debate organised by Europartenaires

An Economy with the Dimension of the person

The European constitution – a step in before for the EU

European construction, yesterday, today and tomorrow

Speech for the handing-over of the “Sigillum Magnum” of the University of Bologna

Towards a new European Union

Our ideal and our priority: to reunify Europe

To make large Europe a space of Solidarity and Cooperation

Evolution of Economic and Social Cohesion to the Future Widening

Europe and Global Issues

The European Debate in Sweden

How to enhance economic and social cohesion in Europe after 2006?

Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing laudatio

The creation of the European Food Authority: institutional implications of risk regulation

The European Council

German Federalism and European Integration

Enlargement of Another Kind

The Franco-German motor facing Agenda 2000

As the Euro prepares for take off: a critical review of the first three years of EMU

Portugal 2000 : The European way

A new mechanism of enhanced co-operation for the enlarged European Union

European Union: the reform of the Council of Ministers

Budgetary discipline and macroeconomic policy in the European Union

The New Institutional Architecture of the European Union: a Franco-German third Way?

National social pacts

Direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe Union

Towards a rethinking of the national systems of social protections? Observations on the recent jurisprudence of the Court of Justice

15 countries in a boat: economic and social cohesion – the cornerstone of european integration

A reappraisial of Europe’s social model

The structural funds reform and economic and social cohesion

Global economy prize 2006- University of Kiel

Intervention in front of the Socialist group of the European Parliament

Europe’s unity: a project for the 21st century

Pax Christi prize for peace, 2005

European social dialogue

“The Constitution, a step forward for the European Union” intervention by Jacques Delors

Adress to the Symposium of “Témoin” Club

Speech of Jacques Delors at the Conference of European Institutes of Statistiques

A new institutional equilibrium and collective sovereignty

The European construction, yesterday, today and tomorrow

Ireland and Europe: Continuity and change, the 2004 presidency

The state of the European Union fifty years after the creation of the European Agency

Direct investement in new Central and Oriental Europe’s member

An “Avant-garde” driving the European unification process forward

The European debate in France at the start of the French presidency

Reuniting Europe: Our Historic Mission

Intervention of Jacques Delors to the Convention of the civil company

Reuniting Europe: Europe’s quest for identities
