Transcription of the interview with Jacques Delors, French Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee from 1979 to 1981, Minister for the Economy and Finance from 1981 to 1984 and President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 3 April 2013 in Paris. The interview was conducted by Renaud Dehousse, Professor and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law and Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and Director of the European Studies Centre, and particularly focuses on the following aspects of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s life: his activities at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (1979–1983), his work on the Delors Committee (1988–1989) and during the negotiations for the Maastricht Treaty and his role as Chairman of the ‘Notre Europe’ think tank (2005–2010).