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Jacques Poos (born 3 June 1935) is a Luxembourgian politician. He has a PhD in economics and is a long-time member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party. As the foreign minister of Luxembourg he held Presidency of the Council of the European Union for three half-year terms in 1985, 1991 and 1997. In 1991 he was one of the negotiators of the Brioni Agreement that ended the ten-day war in Slovenia. In May of that year, upon disembarking from an airplane en route to beginning negotiations, he declared, "The hour of Europe has dawned."
   He is one of the most articulate defenders of a decentralized Europe, and against the pro-centralization attempts to transfer the seat of the European Parliament from Strasbourg to Brussels. In an interview on 16 April 2004, he answers the question of the young pro-Brussels journalist:
"C’est une question récurrente qui continuera à être discutée au niveau politique, mais je pense qu’il ne faut pas la regarder trop à travers le prisme du budget. Ce qu’on n’a jamais fait, c’est calculer le coût d’une centralisation extrême, de mettre tout sur un même lieu – quelqu’un dira, une «ghettoïsation». Aujourd’hui on a quand même, avec Strasbourg, une visibilité différente du Parlement européen, que tout le monde considère différent de Bruxelles. .... Et le fait que le Parlement européen siège à Strasbourg s’explique historiquement et il lui donne une certaine indépendance: ceux de Bruxelles et ceux de Strasbourg. Je pense qu’il faut absolument garder cela également à l’avenir et le défendre vis-à-vis de ceux qui n’ont pas, peut-être, suivi l’histoire européenne depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Je pense que la décentralisation dans une Union européenne a un sens. Il ne faut pas tout mettre au même endroit, même si matériellement ce serait possible, mais ce n’est pas possible." Interview de Jacques F. Poos: les trois lieux de travail du Parlement européen (Sanem, 16 avril 2004) http://www.ena.lu/mce.cfm
   http://www.ena.lu/europe/jacques-poos/arbeitsorte-europaischen-parlaments-sanem-2004.htm

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