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Europe needs an army to fight the resource wars of the twenty-first century.

— Jacques Delors Misattributed

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of this have circulated among Irish and left-wing Eurosceptic groups. Delors explicitly denied making any such statement in 1992 and 1998 in the leadup to Irish referendums on the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties. Commentators have found no evidence for it.

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