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Macron leads Paris tribute to Jacques Delors

Emmanuel Macron praised former finance minister and European Union leader Jacques Delors at a state funeral on Friday.

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French president Emmanuel Macron on Friday praised former finance minister and European Union leader Jacques Delors at a state funeral, saying he had "reconciled Europe with its future", reports Yahoo! News.

The statesman, who died aged 98 on December 27, was Brussels' driving force during the EU's greatest period of integration, the creation of the single market and the euro.

"Jacques Delors never tired of... finding alternatives, of building bridges," Macron said at a ceremony in Paris, near the statesman's coffin draped in the French flag.

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