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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
Jacques Delors
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Jacques Delors
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: July 20
Economist
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Trade Unionist
Paris
France
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors
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