http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/30647cf4377db111 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-red-funding-lines-conceptualising-european-civil-society/ On Red (Funding) Lines - Conceptualising European Civil Society Between Court and Commission Piep, Jakob eng 2026-06-29 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Article 2 TEU Commission v Hungary EU EU funds EU values European Society Pluralism civil society EU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 One of the conceptually most significant innovations by the Court of Justice in Commission v. Hungary is its invocation of European society as a normative referent of the EU legal order, and the characterisation of that society through pluralism. This conceptual step has consequences that reach well beyond the judgement. I argue that it could place the Court on a potential collision course with the European Commission’s recent proposal to explicitly link EU civil society funding to compliance with the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU.