jacques delors is has died aged 98.oods and service is within the eu and he was also a key figure in the creation of the euro. adam fleming looks back at his life. he was the architect of modern europe. in the �*80s and �*90s, the president of the european commission thought the eu should come more closely together, socially, economically and politically. some british conservatives reacted in horror. no! no, no! born to a working—class, devoutly catholic family, jacques delors first became a banker. in 1981, president mitterrand appointed him finance minister. four years later, he headed for brussels. good friends they certainly aren't. .. margaret thatcher signed up to the single european act, which tore down barriers to trade. but delors then championed something she couldn't stomach. this government has no intention of agreeing to the imposition of a single currency. the iron lady saw him as europe's new bonaparte. that would be entering a federal europe through the back delors. the sun said the same — in less diplom

the former european commission president, jacques delors.own. the bronze sculpture is more than six metres tall and shows the star swivelling her hips. shakira and her parents have visited the figure in barranquilla. a plaque at its base praises shakira's music, charity work and — in a reference to her hit song — her "hips that don't lie". google says that shakira was among the names most searched during the year. before the statue was unveiled, she settled a tax fraud case and released a song about her ex — footballer gerard pique. with just a few days to go until new year's eve, the design of the iconic ball that will drop in new york's times square to welcome in 2024 has been revealed. 0rganisers say the new design features a bow tie pattern. it's made from two triangles shining together to make the shape — that's because times square was once known as "the bow tie." the new year's eve ball is just over three and half metres in diameter and weighs nearly five and half thousand kilos. indeed, only a few more days to go, isn't it? that is i

but jacques delors then championed something she couldn't stomach.would be entering a federal europe through the back delors. the sun said the same in less diplomatic language. in 1992, the maastricht treaty laid the foundations of the euro. translation: let's look. to the future, with economic and monetary union, the 12 member countries can hope to draw the greatest possible benefits of a common economic area, with its social dimension too. arguments over that future led to the downfall of margaret thatcher and john major. tony blair and gordon brown disagreed onjoining the euro. in 2016, britain decided enough was enough and left. the british people have spoken and the answer is we are out. at times, financial crises in europe have been blamed on the way the single currency was constructed. but the high priest of european integration never had a doubt. finally, we want to show you a huge statue of the colombian singer shakira unveiled in her hometown. the bronze culture is more than six metres tall and shows the star swiveling those famous hips of

jacques delors, who died today . jacques delors, who died today.ow police scotland has declared a major incident, urging drivers stuck in snow on the a9 to remain in their vehicles. footage circulating on social media shows cars strand in the highlands before snow ploughs were able to start clearing away through to get them out . storm through to get them out. storm garrett has cut power as well to 18,500 homes in scotland due to heavy rain and strong winds . heavy rain and strong winds. rail passengers on the east coast main line between london and scotland are being advised not to travel. thousands of travellers, also facing some delays at airports, with flights grounded and in dover ferry passengers have been facing delays as well of up to an hour and a half. that's due to staff sickness at the french side of the border. it comes amid increased demand at the port as thousands make their way to france for post—christmas trips . france for post—christmas trips. those who've booked ferries are being put on to the next available crossing, where ther

laura -- jacque delors, dead at 98.rved from 1985 to 1995 and also laid the groundwork for a single european currency, the euro. donald trump will be able to contest next year's presidential primary election in the state of michigan. the state supreme court upheld a lower court order that mr. trump be allowed to participate despite accusations he led in insurrection. colorado's supreme court ruled he could not contest the primary in that state. wolfgang schaeuble, a key figure in german politics for decades, has died at age 81. the former finance minister played a big role in negotiating german reunification after the fall of the berlin wall in 1989. he survived an assassination attempt by goingmen in 1990 and -- by gunmen in 1990 and was viewed as one of germany's most influential postwar politicians. is tiktok reinforcing gender stereotypes? that a suggestion after big online trends, even one called girl dinner. i spoke to our social-media presenter, who told us more about these trends. >> there have been a lot of tre

born to a working—class, devoutly catholic family, jacques delors first became a banker.s later, he headed for brussels. good friends, they certainly aren't... i margaret thatcher signed up to the single european act, which tore down barriers to trade. but delors then championed something she couldn't stomach. this government has no intention of agreeing to the imposition of a single currency. the iron lady saw him as europe's new bonaparte. that would be entering a federal europe through the back delors. the sun said the same in less diplomatic language. in 1992, the maastricht treaty laid the foundations of the euro. translation: let's look. to the future, with economic and monetary union, the 12 member countries can hope to draw the greatest possible benefits of a common economic area, with its social dimension, too. arguments over that future led to the downfall of margaret thatcher and john major. tony blair and gordon brown disagreed onjoining the euro. in 2016, britain decided enough was enough and left. the british people have spoken, and the answer is — we're out

um i just i think it's fascinating talking about jacques delors . talking about jacques delors.argaret thatcher's sort of most powerful speeches in the commons, when she really takes jacques aim at jacques delors and fires us, i mean, there it's incredible political oratory . she if you political oratory. she if you like, it's um, it almost seems like, it's um, it almost seems like the good old days, though, doesn't it, when politics seemed a bit more straightforward somehow . i a bit more straightforward somehow. i don't a bit more straightforward somehow . i don't know , less somehow. i don't know, less tribal maybe. well, no . and you tribal maybe. well, no. and you could talk about less tribal, but but it was it just seemed a bit more straightforward forward in a way . it bit more straightforward forward in a way. it was. let's bit more straightforward forward in a way . it was. let's have in a way. it was. let's have a go at jacques delors and all the rest of it. um whereas now it all just seems a complete mess. it seems like the parties, all the parties have got a lot of i

jacques delors who has died at the age of 98.er in support of gerard depardieu, who faces accusations of sexual assault. there've been calls for him to be stripped of his legion d'honneur. the letter denounces what it calls the "lynching" of depardieu, one of france's most famous, and most divisive, actors. he denies any wrongdoing. meghan 0wen has more. gerard depardieu is one of the most famous faces of french film. the oscar and bafta—nominated actor is famous for his work in over 200 films and tv series. but since 2020, he's been under investigation for rape. he also faces allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment from over a dozen women. and a documentary released in december revealed sexual comments that he'd made to and about women. now, he strongly denies all of the allegations and there's no court ruling against him, but its continued to spark controversy across france. now, the french president, emmanuel macron, came underfire for a tv interview he did in december where he defended the actor, saying that it wa

jacques delors and the news.ly. >> okay, i agree with adam now. >> okay, i agree with adam now. >> i didn't mean drop a bomb. >> i didn't mean to drop a bomb. i can point, all i just can i just point, all right. just, um, point us right. can i just, um, point us gently the direction of our gently into the direction of our special christmas game? let's reveal some gb news presenters. all right. who we got to send in childhood pictures of them and see if you could guess who they are. so shall we, uh, shall we do it? all right. we've got a few here that jake obviously. jacob rees—mogg. right. shall we go to next who do we go to the next one? who do we think that is? >> is, um, chef louis, chef >> that is, um, chef louis, chef george farage shaffer . george farage shaffer. >> it's nigel farage, it's nigel farage. i think we've already shown a glimpse of this one. here's one here that here's the next one here that we've yeah i mean obviously we've got. yeah i mean obviously bojo, boris johnson. we've got. yeah i mean

the daughter of jacques delors says the former president of the european commission has died. the 98 year old was a leading figure on the french political left in the 1980s, and became known to many across britain through his dealings with the then prime minister, margaret thatcher, and the creation of the euro. france's president emmanuel macron honoured his fellow politician, saying he'd been a tireless architect of our europe . jacques architect of our europe. jacques delors , who died today on tv , delors, who died today on tv, online, dab+ radio and the tune in app. this is. gb news, one of the highlights of the farage show is talking pints. >> i mean, who else would drink a pint of beer live on british television? me of course, but i do it with some very interesting people. they come from the worlds of politics and the arts and people you've and sport. people you've never heard achieved heard of, who've achieved amazing and joy of amazing things, and the joy of talking pints is you kind of forget you're on telly because it's like two people together having a pint in the

the daughter of jacques delors says the former president of the european commission has died. the 98 year old was a leading figure on the french political left in the 1980s, and became known to many across britain through his dealings with the then prime minister, margaret thatcher, and the creation of the euro. france's president emmanuel macron honoured his fellow politician, saying he'd been a tireless architect of our europe . jacques architect of our europe. jacques delors , who died today on tv , delors, who died today on tv, online, dab+ radio and the tune in app. this is. gb news, one of the highlights of the farage show is talking pints. >> i mean, who else would drink a pint of beer live on british television? me of course, but i do it with some very interesting people. they come from the worlds of politics and the arts and people you've and sport. people you've never heard achieved heard of, who've achieved amazing and joy of amazing things, and the joy of talking pints is you kind of forget you're on telly because it's like two people together having a pint in the

the former president of the european commission — jacques delors — has died aged 98. at the time were playing in the english premier league — to belfast. the team would have been renamed belfast united, as our correspondent mark simpson reports. a brand—new sports stadium in belfast, with a premier league football team. that was the plan 25 years ago — to help bring people together as the peace process improved. the idea of turning wimbledon fc into belfast united fc was discussed openly at the time. what the state papers released today show is the extent of the political discussions behind the scenes. there certainly were differences of opinion on that. mo mowlam, as secretary of state, was not keen on the idea — in fact, she used the phraseology that she didn't think it was a particularly safe proposal. by contrast, the prime minister, tony blair, was extremely enthusiastic, and he wrote in the middle ofjuly 1998 that he thought it would be excellent if wimbledon moved to belfast, and that the government should try to do everything to make that happen. in the end, of

in france, the former president of the european commission and architect of the euro, jacques delorsied at the age of delors, has died at the age of 98. monsieur delors was a leading figure on the french political left during the 1980s, and was perhaps best known in britain for his feisty relationship with the then prime minister, margaret thatcher. france's president emmanuel macron, has honoured his fellow politician today , saying he'd politician today, saying he'd been a tireless architect of our europe . the number of people europe. the number of people shopping in high street sales across the uk was down more than 20% on boxing day yesterday . 20% on boxing day yesterday. figures from the mri software found that whilst footfall was up before 3:00 in the afternoon, it was significantly lower across the whole day . the group across the whole day. the group said the only location to experience an overall rise in high street visitors was centre . high street visitors was centre. london that's the news on gb news across the uk on tv , in news across the uk on tv, in your car, on dig

and margaret thatcher saying goodbye to jacques delors one last time.he times labour will promise big expansion of child care . uh, big expansion of child care. uh, that's a picture of it there on the beach and financial times global defence order books. but . global defence order books. but. pledge, as ukraine puts budgets on war footing , the i homes on war footing, the i homes bought up for axed hs2 rail line are rented out for millions. that sounds like corruption. the guardian domestic abuse survivors have lost trust in us. more met and the star. uh gridlock or grid gridlock? they seem to . be implying that, uh seem to. be implying that, uh that only the tiger is involved anyway, those are your front pages. anyway, those are your front pages . so anyway, those are your front pages. so kicking anyway, those are your front pages . so kicking off anyway, those are your front pages. so kicking off our in—depth look to the front pages with the daily mail, chris. >> okay. >> okay. >> hunt planned to slash death tax by half, so hunt apparently he's he's s

former european commission president jacques delors, described as the architect of the modern eu, hehe bloc. um and of course it caused a very famous headline by the british tabloid, which probably isn't worth mentioning at this moment. now, now i'm joined . i'm joined now, now i'm joined. i'm joined now on the line by simon danzig , now on the line by simon danzig, who is, of course, the former labour mp. and we've been talking throughout the show here. he is always pleasure. here. he is always a pleasure. thanks hope thanks forjoining us. hope you're merry christmas. you're having a merry christmas. now about the end now we're talking about the end of rishi of year performance of rishi sunak we worked out that he sunak and we worked out that he scored half a point out of five. but we're looking ahead to the new year now. simon and of course the general election is looming. can rishi turn it around or do you think at the moment and moving forward, sir keir starmer is in pole position ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i think 7 >> i think keir starmer is in a particularly good place. it's not for cer

u commission president jacques, the lord has died aged 98, a french socialist, delores served as finance minister in the 1980s before moving to the you. he was a passionate advocate of european integration and his, celebrated as a key figure in the creation of the single european currency, the euro, as well as turn now to mexico, se se, where us, where at the us and mexico met for high level talks on migration this has washington tries to corpus search and people crossing the southern border us actually it states and to me, blanket and met with mexico's president andre manuel lopez of abra door. with an eye to limiting the number of migrants reaching the us. lopez over door has that he is willing to help, but what's the washington to improve relations with other countries in the region, as well as increased age and return? the issue is becoming a big political problem for us president joe biden as he approaches next year's election, as many as 10000 people a day are being detained. trying to cross the southern us border migrant stranded in northern mexico, hoping to get to the us border