By Marc Paoloni
Europolitics followed, at the time, every stage of the creation of the euro, to which you made an immense contribution. The delivery was not easy. Where did resistance lie? Do you have any particular memories of those negotiations?
When the Santer Commission came into office in early 1995, there was no work under way to prepare the introduction of the euro. We published a green paper, 'A currency for Europe', in spring 1995. It set out the…