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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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Undaunted, the Brussels establishment continued to pursue unification.
— Simon Jenkins, A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin (2018)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
French official and politician (1926–2020)
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Lived 1926–2020, aged 94France
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Updated 2026-06-21
He held France's presidency through seven oil-shocked years that ended three decades of postwar boom, liberalized divorce and abortion while unemployment climbed, and lost re-election despite high approval because the economy had turned and both left and right wanted him gone.
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing served as finance minister under two prime ministers before winning the presidency in 1974 with 50.8% against François Mitterrand. His tenure pushed social modernization—looser laws on divorce, contraception, abortion—and launched the TGV, the turn to nuclear energy, and cultural projects like the Musée d'Orsay and Grande Arche. The 1973 energy crisis ended the Trente Glorieuses, and he answered with austerity and rising joblessness to hold down deficits. Squeezed between a unified left under Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac's resurgent Gaullism on the right, he lost the…
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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Did it have to come to this? The paradox is that when Europe was less united, it was in many ways more independent.
— Perry Anderson, "Depicting Europe", London Review of Books (20 September 2007)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty.
— On the Lisbon Treaty, in his blog, 25 June 2007, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: Conclusions du Conseil européen de Bruxelles, 21 et 22 juin
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them directly. (...) This approach of 'divide and ratify' is clearly unacceptable.
— On the Lisbon Treaty, Le Monde, 15 June 2007
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.
— Speaking at the London School of Economics, quoted on EurActiv.com, "Giscard: France’s rejection of the Constitution was a ‘mistake’",
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