The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

He served in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981 becoming chairman of its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Post-Presidency
Delors has a long-standing interest in education. French politics
Born in Paris in a family originating from Corrèze Delors first held in the 1940s through the 1960s a series of posts in French banking and state planning with the Banque de France.

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French economist and politician the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office (between January 1985 and December 1994).