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Regarded as distant, technical and a matter for specialists, the European Community is rarely studied by political sociology – except when it comes to “European” sociology. Yet it is for all its negative characteristics that the passage through Europe constitutes a particularly heuristic way of re-interrogating relationships to politics. Based on the re-analysis of interviews conducted in France during the CONCORDE (CONCeptions ORdinaires De l’Europe) survey between 2005 and 2007, the article focuses more deliberately on what respondents – when talking about Europe – say about what politics in general means to them, according to their positions, and their social and relational resources. It explores the way in which the interviews provide a number of clues that enable us to look back on this diversity of relationships in order to propose lines of understanding, by analyzing the substrates of their institutional construction and sociological coherence. Having made the familiar relationship to politics no longer a pole on a continuum regulated by competence, but a relationship to politics among others, this article then asks whether the legitimacy that constituted this relationship is still as undisputed, as a way of questioning contemporary transformations in the ordinary exercise of domination.