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In this article, I shed a critical light on the widely shared assumption that there is no European people. I argue that this assumption rests on a unitary representation of the political community. From that perspective, the discussion can only revolve around the best way to accommodate a plurality of sovereignties within a supranational political framework. I contend that another understanding of the people is available, one that emphasizes the irreducible gap between its political representation and its sociological reality. According to that tradition, the people never fully coincides with itself and there can be no question of turning unity into its organizing principle. I go on to show that the EU’s diversity is not an obstacle to the recognition of a European people. But I stress that the European political regime as it is currently institutionalized leaves little to no room for the demonstration of that gap—for it is geared toward the building of consensus and represses the expression of a properly European dissensus.