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Résumé Les transformations dont l'administration de l'Union européenne a fait l'objet dans la conjoncture de crise économique présentent un tableau nuancé et en rupture avec les représentations les plus communes d'une administration aux manettes (et donc épargnée) ou à l'inverse victime, des politiques d'austérité. Le processus de révision statutaire qui s'est déroulé entre 2010 et 2013 a inclus des mesures d'économie réelles et son issue est longtemps restée incertaine quand bien même elle fut moins radicale que ce que proposait une partie des protagonistes. Sur un autre plan, la conjoncture a renforcé les positions des agents et des services dont la compétence se fonde sur l'expertise économique et financière. En revenant successivement sur ces deux aspects, cet article propose une analyse des effets de la crise sur les administrations qui insiste sur les concurrences dont l'administration de l'UE est l'enjeu et sur leurs conséquences en termes de légitimation ou de délégitimation de ses agents. En pointant l'importance des continuités historiques et des variables socio‑politiques l'article propose l'hypothèse que la crise économique n'est finalement qu'un segment de transformations de plus longue haleine dont l'enjeu consiste notamment dans la remise en cause de l'autonomie relative et des équilibres entre secteurs dépensiers et financiers des administrations.

"This article elaborates on the concept of technocrat, contrasting it with that of a bureaucrat. The impact of the 'Delors heritage' on the administrative culture of the Commission contributed to the perceived politicisation of the Commission that gave way to a 'shifting definition of European administrative excellence' in which 'fundamental skills... [became] subordinated to managerial skills'. A more conservative culture arose that discouraged risk-taking, perhaps explaining the declining leadership role of the Commission." (contract)

Essay in a symposium on "A Different Reading of the International": Pierre Bourdieu and International Studies. The author discusses the movement toward a systematic analysis of the EU institutions as a social field, both empirically grounded by the sociology of the people working in and with EU institutions and theoretically informed by a Bourdieusian inspired sociology of field. Adapted from the source document.

"The term 'Eurocracy' is a word that exists in all European languages. Yet beyond fantasized representations of the 'Brussels bubble', we know little about members of the European Parliament, Commissioners, European civil servants, lobbyists, members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, European trade unionists, diplomats and journalists who work in or around the EU institutions? What are their social and professional trajectories, the type of authority they possess, and how does it matter? Based on extensive fieldwork, this volume aims at answering these questions by building upon Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field of bureaucracy. 45 years after Altiero Spinelli's 'The Eurocrats', this book sheds new light on the relational structures that underpin the functioning of the EU polity. Specialists of European affairs, scholars and students in politics, administration and sociology as well as citizens will find original insights to understanding EU institutions and why the European project appears to be in crisis."--

Cover -- The Political Uses of European Governance -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Studying the political uses of a White Paper -- Chapter I: The governance of European Governance -- Chapter II: The White Paper on European Governance and European political rhetoric -- Chapter III: Governance against political representation? -- Chapter IV: The Commission's Strategy on civil society involvement: mixed feelings among the actors towards the White Paper on European Governance -- Chapter V: German municipalities and European governance: from transpositions to repositioning strategies -- Chapter VI: Multi-level governance and British elites: perceptions of the White Paper on Governance -- Chapter VII: Fields of power and the reception of governance in France -- Conclusion: The White Paper on European Governance and beyond -- References.