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Some interpretations given of the Santer commission 's resignation were that the Commission was unable to manage the crisis, and especially because of its "poor communication" skills. On the one hand, this paper shows that this interpretation is wrong. The problem of this crisis is not a communication problem, but a legitimisation problem. And this legitimisation problem is due to a more general transformation of the European political game, which led to a dynamic of disintegration of its allies. But on the other hand, one could say that the interpretation of poor communication is nevertheless interesting in a very particular meaning. Considering these changes, one can think that the European Commission Communication has been wrong-footed by the politicisation of the European Institutions which was in process in this crisis. In other word, this crisis led us to think to the link between legitimisation and construction of political practices in the EU institutions.

The sociology of "people who run europe" is curiously absent of the majority of the european studies, and specialy the process of their professionnalisation. This contribution would like to present some benefits of the sociology of professions in order to understand the différenciation of a European political space. Founded on the results published in the collective book Les métiers de l'Europe, it identifies three directions that could help to better understand the differenciation process of the european political space : the competition between the group and the out-group of euro-proferssionnals, their internal competition and their effects on the closure of the field, the effects of professional situations and practices.