![European Union President Jacques Delors listens to a question during a press conference on the book "In search of Europe" October 21, 1994, at the EU headquarters.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/QYYYG5JV5HOQIDOK6UIOWAU3X4.jpg?auth=999d1ea88dff077bc3bde5ca603e9e6f133164dc3a827ca239c9db04cfac10d3&width=414&height=233&focal=950%2C595)
Jacques Delors, architect of the modern EU and ‘Mr. Europe,’ dies aged 98
Under his 1985-1995 tenure at the head of the European Union’s bureaucracy in Brussels, member countries agreed to tear down barriers that prevented the free movement of capital, goods, services and people