Editing Jacques Poos

{{Short description|Luxembourgish politician (1935–2022)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Jacques Poos
| image               = Jacques Poos 1999.jpg
| caption             = Poos in 1999
| office              = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start          = 20 July 1999
| term_end            = 5 May 2004
| alongside           = [[Colette Flesch]], [[Robert Goebbels]], [[Astrid Lulling]], [[Jacques Santer]] and [[Claude Turmes]]
| constituency        = [[Luxembourg (European Parliament constituency)|Luxembourg]]
| office1             = [[Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg]]
| term_start1         = 20 July 1984
| term_end1           = 7 August 1999
| primeminister1      = {{plainlist|
* [[Jacques Santer]]
* [[Jean-Claude Juncker]]
}}
| predecessor1        = Colette Flesch
| successor1          = [[Lydie Polfer]]
| office2             = [[Minister for Finances of Luxembourg|Minister for Finances]]
| term_start2         = 21 July 1976
| term_end2           = 16 July 1979
| primeminister2      = [[Gaston Thorn]]
| predecessor2        = [[Raymond Vouel]]
| successor2          = Jacques Santer
| birth_name          = Jacques François Poos
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1935|6|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = Luxembourg
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2022|2|19|1935|6|3|df=yes}}
| party               = [[Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party]]
| otherparty          = [[Party of European Socialists]]
| alma_mater          = [[University of Lausanne]]
}}
'''Jacques François Poos''' (3 June 1935 – 19 February 2022) was a Luxembourgish politician from the [[Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party]] (LSAP).

==Early life and education==
Born in 1935, in Luxembourg, Poos was a trained economist and became a doctor of economics in 1961, when he graduated from the [[University of Lausanne]].

==Career in politics==
[[File:Santer Juncker Poos 1997.jpg|thumb|Poos and [[Jean-Claude Juncker]] in 1997]]
Poos was a long-time member of the [[Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party]]. 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 July 1976, he was appointed Minister of Finance. 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. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development, first in Jacques Santer's (from 1984 to 1995), then in Jean-Claude Junckers's cabinets (from 1995 to 1999).

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."<ref>Watt, Nicholas. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/12/nobel-peace-prize-eu-question-existence "Nobel peace prize leads EU to question its raison d'être"]. ''[[The Guardian]]'', 12 October 2012. Retrieved on 13 May 2013.</ref>

===European Parliament===
In 1999, Poos left the government and was elected as a Member of European Parliament, where he sat on the Committee for Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, and was the draftsman for Cyprus' accession into the EU. In 2003, he received an honorary doctor of law degree from Panteion University of Athens, Greece.

==Retirement and death==
In 2004, Poos retired from political life, but remained active as non-executive director in the boards of different national and international institutions and companies. He died on 19 February 2022, at the age of 86.<ref>[http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/luxembourg/story/l-ancien-ministre-jacques-poos-est-mort-10384196 L'ancien ministre Jacques Poos est mort] {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Santer-Poos Ministry I]]
*[[Santer-Poos Ministry II]]
*[[Santer-Poos Ministry III]]
*[[Juncker-Poos Ministry]] (1995-1999)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.ena.lu/mce.cfm Interview with Jacques F. Poos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023025336/http://www.ena.lu/mce.cfm |date=23 October 2006 }}
* [http://www.ena.lu/europe/jacques-poos/arbeitsorte-europaischen-parlaments-sanem-2004.htm Interview with Jacques F. Poos]
* [http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/index.php?Dr-Jacques-F-Poos Video interviews with Jacques F. Poos]
* [http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/articles/biec/speakers/speakers-pages/files/Global_Foreign_Policy_Today,_an_unconventional_approach_-_Dr._Jacques_F._Poos.pdf Dr. Jacques F. Poos - Global Foreign Policy Today, an unconventional approach]
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