In this interview excerpt, Niels Thygesen, Adviser to the Governor of the Danmarks Nationalbank from 1973 to 1983, Chairman of the Danish Economic Council from 1983 to 1985 and a member of the Delors Committee set up to study and propose practical steps that would lead to the gradual establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) from 1988 to 1989, describes the personality of Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995, particularly referring to Delors’ relations with European leaders of the time, especially François Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl and Margaret Thatcher, and with the other members of the Delors Committee.