Interview with Élisabeth Guigou, Secretary-General of the French Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation from 1985 to 1990, Policy Officer to French President François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1990, Minister for European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, Keeper of the Seals, Minister for Justice from 1997 to 2000, Minister for Employment and Solidarity from 2000 to 2002, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the French National Assembly since 2012 and a member of the Board of Directors of the think tank Notre Europe — Jacques Delors Institute, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 29 September 2008 in Paris. The interview was conducted by Frédéric Clavert, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following aspects: French administrations and European affairs, keeping France in the European Monetary System and the Fontainebleau revival, the role of the Secretariat-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation (SGCI) and the road to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).