I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

He served in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981 becoming chairman of its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Post-Presidency
Delors has a long-standing interest in education. French politics
Born in Paris in a family originating from Corrèze Delors first held in the 1940s through the 1960s a series of posts in French banking and state planning with the Banque de France.

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French economist and politician the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office (between January 1985 and December 1994).