What Role did Jacques Delors play in the Relaunch of European Integration during the years between 1985 and 1990

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What Role did Jacques Delors play in the Relaunch of European Integration during the years between 1985 and 1990?

Before we can answer this question fully, I believe the term 'relaunch' should be explored as it is a contentious claim. We need to decide whether European Integration was halted during the late 1970s and early 1980s for this claim to be substantiated or whether European Integration continued (just less overtly). By the 1970s European Integration had stagnated and there seemed to be no forthcoming light at the end of the tunnel. It had reached such a critical state by the early 1980s that the term 'Eurosclerosis'1 was coined to describe it. How to deal with the second oil crisis split the European countries, and the British budgetary question created a 'serious deadlock in Community decision-making'.2 As Pieter Dankert asked in The Origins and Development of the European Community, "Why has the infant which held out so much promise 25 years ago changed into a feeble cardiac patient whose condition is so poor that he cannot even be disturbed by a birthday party?"3 However this dismal outlook on European integration was soon to change, coinciding with the appointment of Jacques