Mémoire
| Résumé : | Since the Kinnock reforms of 2004, the European Commission's civil service has undergone aprofound change in the way it is organised and recruited. The values that allowed officials topersonify a supranational civil service in the making have been transformed, already causing areproductive crisis for permanent staff.The number of Contract staff has only increased since then. The multiplication of this group, whichhas even ended up being almost in a majority in certain Directorates-General, is changing therelationship between staff and their role. In addition to not being permanent, it is undergoing formsof precarisation within a sociological Field which is intended to be that of a transnational elite.Stating that an elite can be somewhat precarious seems paradoxical at first glance in view of theadvantages of being part of the European civil service. Still, comparatively worse workingconditions for an ever-growing population of fixed-term staff cause side-effects on the mission ofembodiment of supranational civil service in the making. Thus, the risk of the European civilservice losing its unique character is increasing, while the issues surrounding reforms in recruitmentand socialisation process spark internal tensions. This mémoire aims at revealing those tensions and try to understand the field of eurocracy through their prism. |
