This chapter is organised around the conceptual distinction between “the governance of ethics” and “ethical governance”. The first reflects a conventional way of understanding public ethics using policy instruments. The second comprises a more integrated approach to ethics, which involves a form of ethical mainstreaming. The chapter first discusses these concepts and then applies them to the case of the EU to illustrate what these concepts mean in practice and to examine the extent to which we can find examples of them in the EU institutions. The chapter concludes by contrasting the advances that have been made in the “governance of ethics” in the EU with the limited steps taken towards EU “ethical governance” and explains why the former is easier to achieve than the latter.