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French President Emmanuel Macron praised Delors as a "statesman with a French destiny" and an "inexhaustible craftsman of our Europe".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed Delors as a "visionary" and an "architect of the EU as we know it".

Political leaders have paid tribute to former European Commission President Jacques Delors, who has died aged 98.

Delors served three terms as European Commission president, longer than anyone else.

But Delors's vision of an "ever closer union" was not universally shared.