In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation (SGCI) from 1985 to 1990 and Policy Officer to the President of the French Republic, François Mitterrand, from 1988 to 1990, describes the additional work carried out after the submission of the Delors Report on the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1989 and discusses the differences of opinion between France and Germany on this issue.

In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation (SGCI) from 1985 to 1990 and Policy Officer to French President François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1990, discusses François Mitterrand’s attitude to the upheavals that culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990.

In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation (SGCI) from 1985 to 1990, Policy Officer to French President François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1990 and Minister for European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, discusses the position of the French Ministry of Finance with regard to the arrangements for the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, French Minister for European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, describes the main discussions that took place during the Intergovernmental Conferences on Political Union and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), launched on 15 December 1990 in Rome and on 9 and 10 December 1991 at the Maastricht European Council . These discussions led to the securing of an agreement on the Treaty on European Union.

In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, French Minister for European Affairs from 1990 to 1993, describes the campaign for the referendum held in France in 1992 on the adoption of the Treaty on European Union.