In this interview excerpt, Élisabeth Guigou, Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation from 1985 to 1990 and Special Adviser to French President François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1990, discusses the circumstances in which she met Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997. She particularly describes Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s contribution to the work of the ‘Guigou Group’, which was set up to carry out additional work following the submission in 1989 of the Delors Report on the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

In this interview excerpt, Élisabeth Guigou, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the French National Assembly since 2012 and a member of the Board of the ‘Notre Europe’ think tank, 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.