In this interview, Henri Werner, the son of Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984, and chairman of the group of experts set up in 1970 to draft a plan for the establishment by stages of economic and monetary union (the ‘Werner Plan’), describes the personality of his father through various events of his life, particularly highlighting his qualities as a man of dialogue.