Editing Jacques Santer (section)

{{Short description|Luxembourgish and European Union politician (born 1937)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[His Excellency]]
| name                = Jacques Santer
| image               = Jacques Santer 1995.jpg
| caption             = Santer in 1995
| order               = <!-- not used.  EU does not use US-style numbered presidencies. -->
| office              = [[President of the European Commission]]
| vicepresident       = [[Leon Brittan]]
| term_start          = 25 January 1995
| term_end            = 15 March 1999
| predecessor         = [[Jacques Delors]]
| successor           = [[Manuel Marín]] {{small|(''Acting'')}}
| office1             = [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]]
| monarch1            = [[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Jean]]
| term_start1         = 20 July 1984
| term_end1           = 20 January 1995
| predecessor1        = [[Pierre Werner]]
| successor1          = [[Jean-Claude Juncker]]
| office2             = [[List of Ministers for Finances of Luxembourg|Minister of Finances]]
| term_start2         = 16 July 1979
| term_end2           = 14 July 1989
| primeminister2      = Pierre Werner <br /> ''Himself''
| predecessor2        = [[Jacques Poos]]
| successor2          = Jean-Claude Juncker
| birth_name          = Jacques Louis Santer
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1937|5|18|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Wasserbillig]], [[Luxembourg]]
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| resting_place       = 
| party               = {{Ubl|[[Christian Social People's Party|Christian Social People's]]|[[European People's Party|European People's]]}}
| spouse              = Danièle Binot (m. 1967)
| children            = [[Patrick Santer|Patrick]], [[Jérôme Santer|Jérôme]]
| alma_mater          = {{Ubl|[[University of Paris]]|[[University of Amsterdam]]{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}}}
| signature           = 
| website             = 
| module              = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Jacques Santer voice.ogg|title=Jacques Santer's voice|type=speech|description=Santer on the introduction of the [[euro]]<br/>Recorded 12 December 1998}}
}}

'''Jacques Santer''' (born 18 May 1937)<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url= http://www.gouvernement.lu/1828371/Gouvernements_depuis_1848-version_2011.pdf |title= "Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché depuis 1848." Archived copy |access-date=2018-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171230155752/https://www.gouvernement.lu/1828371/Gouvernements_depuis_1848-version_2011.pdf |archive-date=30 December 2017 |df=dmy }}</ref> is a Luxembourgish politician who served as [[president of the European Commission]] from 1995 to 1999. He served as the [[finance minister of Luxembourg]] from 1979 until 1989, and as [[prime minister of Luxembourg]] from 1984 to 1995, as a member of the [[Christian Social People's Party]] (CSV), which was the leading party in the Luxembourgish government between 1979 and 2013. As Prime Minister of Luxembourg, he also led the negotiations on the [[Single European Act]], which effectively set aside the 20-year-old [[Luxembourg Compromise]].