Transcription of the interview with Fabrizio Saccomanni, Head of the Foreign Department at the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997 and Managing Director for International Affairs at the Bank of Italy from 1997 to 2003, Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 2003 to 2006, a Member of the Governing Board and Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2006 to 2013 and Italian Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance from 2013 to 2014, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 19 April 2016 at the Bank of Italy in Rome. The interview was conducted by Elena Danescu, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: the role of the Bank of Italy in the development of Economic and Monetary Union, the Delors Committee and the Delors Report, the introduction of the euro in Italy and the euro zone crises.