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The European model of flexicurity reconciles flexibility on the labor markets and security for the workers. The article examines how political and bureaucratic actors of the European Commission have adapted to a challenging political and institutional context. In the first instance, the Danish “golden triangle of flexicurity” facilitated the process of getting around strong opposition from European trade unions’ representatives. This framework then had to be softened in order to encourage Member States to adopt it at a national level. This article explains why some experts, and not others, have been mobilized. It highlights the strategic approach to hiring expertise and evaluates the effect this tends to have in terms of reducing political turmoil.