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- Died
- Jacques Poos was born on June 3, 1935 in Luxemburg City, Luxemburg. He died on February 19, 2022 in Luxembourg.
- Between 1964 and 1976, he was director and editor in Chief of the daily newspaper "Tageblatt" in Esch-sur-Alzette. In the same period he also became a member of the town council of Esch-sur-Alzette.
- 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.".
- In 2003, he received an honorary doctor of law degree from Panteion University of Athens, Greece.
- Poos was 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.
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