In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee from 1979 to 1981 and French Minister for the Economy and Finance from 1981 to 1984, discusses the circumstances in which he met Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa when he was a Director in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, a post he held from 1979 to 1983.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, explains the objectives and main points of the ‘Efficiency, Stability and Equity’ report submitted by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa to the Commission of the European Communities in 1988. At that time Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa was Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy, a post he held from 1984 to 1997.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, explains the role played by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, as part of the ‘Delors Committee’ that was set up to study and propose practical steps that would lead to the gradual establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, describes the role played by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, in establishing the Italian Government’s position in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union in 1992.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, discusses the work of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008, as Chairman of Notre Europe from 2005 to 2010.