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Who defended the creation of an internal defense market within the Eurocratic field following the adoption of the “defense package” in 2009? This analysis sheds light on the armament actors who worked on behalf of this change in public action and those who opposed them. Drawing upon fieldwork, I show that this rivalry at the summit of the European Union can neither be reduced to the national interests of opposing member states nor to predictable institutional division between the European Commission and EU member states. The armament actors that defended adoption of the defense package consist of member states and EU institutions, public actors and private industrial actors. On the basis of a “programmatic” approach located at the intersection of the sociology of European public action and the sociology of elites, I shed light on two “associations” of competing actors, the “sovereignists” and the “liberals”, who respectively position themselves as adversaries and supporters of the defense packet’s adoption. This approach contributes to the study of the structuring of the Eurocratic field in the twenty-first century.