http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180228-134754 https://verfassungsblog.de/has-the-cjeu-just-reconfigured-the-eu-constitutional-order/ Has the CJEU just Reconfigured the EU Constitutional Order? Ovádek, Michal eng 2018-02-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 judicial independence Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On 27 February 2018 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) handed down a judgment in Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses v Tribunal de Contas. The case concerned a legal challenge of the Portuguese association of judges against austerity measures temporarily reducing the salaries of public sector workers. The CJEU may have used it to potentially reconfigure a long-standing compromise underlying the EU constitutional order, and to send a signal to Poland (and others) and preparing for future engagement with what could possibly be independent Polish courts.