François Lamoureux

François Lamoureux (1946 - 2006) was one of the largest civils servant of the European commission, of which it integrated the legal department in 1978. Quickly noticed by the general secretary of the Commission Emile Christmas, he became then assistant chief of the cabinet of Jacques Delors with the presidency of the European commission (1985-1995). He was on this occasion one of the principal craftsmen of the large building sites of the European Union (Interior market, policy of cohesion, Economic Union and Monetarist). Principal private secretary of the Police chief Edith Cresson, it opposes the latter about the nomination of a collaborator who will make scandal and cause the fall of the Commission Santer. Promoted Managing director of the DG Energie and Transports in 1999, he is the principal writer of the Projet Pénélope for a European Constitution in 2002-2003, which will be buried with the profit of the project of the European Convention refused by French people and Dutch in 2005. This powerful civil servant leaves his post office at the end of 2005, after having played a crucial role in the success of the project of satellite Galileo (competitor of GPS American) and worked for a rebalancing of the policies of transport in favor of the rail. He becomes member of the Board of directors of the Think tank Our Europe founded by Jacques Delors in 1996.

Man of conviction and heart fighting with obstinacy for his ideas and a federalistic vision of Europe, it also knew to recognize before the letter the geopolitical challenges to which Europe would be confronted in the long term. Thus since 2000, it was at the base, with Romano Prodi, Vladimir Poutine, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko and the Vice-president of the European commission, Loyola de Palacio, of the launching of the energy Dialog between the European Union and the Federation of Russia, dialogs that it carried out with tact and success in the single capacity as interlocutor with his Russian counterpart Viktor Khristenko until December 2005.

In April 2004, whereas the discussions relating to the constitution project European are enlisent, he proposes to organize a " back-garde" for the States which cannot or do not want to carry out certain policies envisaged by the Constitution, on the model of the method which made it possible to create Schengen space.

It died out on Saturday, August 26, 2006 at the conclusion of a long illness.

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