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Jacques Delors’s “Social Europe” Was the Prisoner of Pro-Austerity Dogmas
Last week saw the death of Jacques Delors, a leading architect of the European Union at the turn of the 1990s. Delors promised the EU would be a “social Europe” — a dream fatally undermined by the budget-cutting dogmas on which it was built.