The interdisciplinary working group "Structural change of conflict resolution in Europe" has met at the Max-Planck-Institut for comparative public law and international law" in Heidelberg on 3-4 May. A primary focus was the simultaneity of processes of politicization (on the level of civil society) and technocratization (on the level of the European institutional setting), which was discussed as a field of tension between expertise and democratization. The meeting particularly benefited from the insightful guest lectures of Astrid Séville, Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg and Guido Thiemeyer. Astrid Séville focused on technocratization as a crisis strategy; Christian Thiemeyer gave a talk on the disparate perceptions of the Eurozone crisis by German economists; Guido Thiemeyer presented his research on the role of experts in historical monetary unions.