Transcription of the interview with Élisabeth Guigou — Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation from 1985 to 1990 and Special Adviser to French President François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1990, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the French National Assembly since 2012 and a member of the Board of the ‘Notre Europe’ think tank — carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 7 February 2013 in Paris. The interview was conducted by François Klein, a Scientific Collaborator at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following aspects of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s life: his contribution to the activities of the ‘Guigou Group’, which was set up to carry out additional work following the submission in 1989 of the Delors Report on the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), his work during the negotiations on the Maastricht Treaty and his role as Chairman of the ‘Notre Europe’ think tank (2005–2010).