“…This conception of depoliticization is then empirically questionable. Firstly, its nominalist reasoning seems ill-suited to an institutional space in which a same case/object is frequently subjected to competing labelling, presented by some as technical, and by others as political (Robert, 2001;Baisnée and Smith, 2006). Secondly, this understanding of depoliticization phenomena relies also on a singular vision of the history of the EU of which many works, dating politicization from the 1990s, overinflate the technical and irenic character of the first decades (Hooghe and Marks, 2009), and only refer to depoliticization dynamics from the early 2000s, as a response to, and component of, "crises", especially of the eurozone (Majone, 2011, see also Anders, Kauppi and Trenz, and Wiesner in this volume).…”