This chapter describes the national reform processes of six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Portugal. The approach opted for here has been to give the voice to the individual university rectors and officials that played an important role during the reform processes. By hearing their stories, we obtain a vivid narrative of the government drivers of reform and of the rationales of the institutions as main partners in the reform processes. These narratives are complemented by and contrasted with a review of the literature on the subject. Without ignoring the elements of subjectivity in these individual reports of the reform processes, all of the contributors, in their capacity as practitioners, provide a highly specific vision of the contexts in which the reforms have taken place, of the main drivers, of the paths and tempos taken by the reform processes, of the dilemmas faced and the decisions taken, of the quality of the dialogue between policy makers and institutional leaders and of the advances made towards a new configuration in the relations between the education authority and the universities. It is thanks to these unique insights that the readers can appreciate the details of the reform processes as they were experienced by those directly involved in instigating them. [For the complete volume, "Governance Reforms in European University Systems: The Case of Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Portugal. Educational Governance Research. Volume 8," see ED614414.]