Le lobbying associatif à bruxelles entre mobilisations unitaires et sectorielles

Abstract

The Europeanisation of collective action highlights the emergence of "bottom-up" mobilisations around the European Union. The organisations which are increasingly involved on a community scale notably include "public interest" groups. The European structuring of the associative sector is analysed here from the point of view of two competing networks which are aiming to be the official mouthpiece : the Comité européen des associations d'intérê t général (CEDAG) and European Citizens' Action Service (ECAS). Through the strategies of these two organisations, essentially focused on the generation of expertise, two visions of the relations between associations and public authorities in the Community are in fact being generated, the former being closer to the neo-corporatist paradigm of mediation of social interests and the latter more in accordance with the pluralist paradigm.