In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, Technical Adviser to the President of the Republic from 1982 to 1988 and Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation (SGCI) from 1985 to 1990, explains how the SGCI worked and its role in determining the French Government’s European policy.
In this interview, Élisabeth Guigou, Technical Adviser to the President of the Republic from 1982 to 1988 and Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation (SGCI) from 1985 to 1990, outlines the way in which the main European issues were managed during the political cohabitation between François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic, and Jacques Chirac, French Prime Minister, from 1986 to 1988.