Who are the European experts? Profiles, trajectories and expert `careers' of the European Commission

Focused on the experts groups of the European Commission, this article aims to understand not only who the European experts are, but also on what grounds. It adopts a sociological perspective, paying attention to the social properties of those actors, in order to better grasp which type of actors can gain access to the European policy-making process by this way, but also how the experts' authority can get the upper hand in the European arena, and under what conditions it may be exerted. (...