ABSTRACT
Our European civil service organisations are frequently challenged and partially reformed. However, in recent years, they seem to be challenged and reformed in a new manner. Until recently, tensions were previously centred on typical open managerial concerns: this was frequently associated with a trend towards contractual solutions both in the recruitment of civil servants and in the legal organisation of their careers. The advent of the economic and sanitary crises and the prospect of others, especially the ones linked with climatic evolution, seem to have stimulated a desire of governments to concentrate staff management so as to strengthen their States.
