Jacques Delors: his vision for Europe was for a single market for capital, labour, goods and services; and economic and monetary union

Former EU Commission president Jacques Delors: he maintained a prodigious work rate and demanded no less of his commission colleagues. One secret of his success was his intensive preparation for the summit meetings that made the big decisions on Europe's future. Photograph: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie Born: July 20th,1925 Died: December 27th, 2023 Jacques Delors, who has died at the age of 98, will be remembered as one of the most talented, visionary - and divisive - figures of post-second World War Europe. A thinker on a grand scale, Delors devoted 10 years in Brussels, between 1985 and 1995, and his subsequent…