The Europe of Knowledge as a Political Driver – How are European Level Actors Configuring European Governance Architecture?

Assuming that European coordination is a political system rather than a process of integration, the coordination of the interaction between EU processes and national policies come to the fore. This paper looks at ideas, interests and instruments in the perspective of European level actors to analyze the configuration of European governance with regard to the Europe of Knowledge. . European policies are developing the Lisbon ‘script’ by assuming the coordination and dissemination of policy reforms, thus promoting ideational and organizational components of the governance architecture. In order to analyze the components of the governance architecture, we will use interviews with European Parliament members and European Commission officers conducted under the framework of TRUE (Eurohesc) project. The analysis aims to shed light on the prevailing ideas, interests, instruments and institutions that those interviewed represent or stand for.