http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/4160dc46660198e6 https://verfassungsblog.de/playing-with-fire/ Playing with Fire - Religious Freedom, Civil Society, and State Neutrality in the EU Court of Justice Pin, Andrea eng 2025-12-18 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Church-State Relations EU Religionsfreiheit freedom of religion religious freedom religious pluralism EU Religionsfreiheit Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Court of Justice’s narrow understanding of religious freedom under EU law is playing with fire. In the name of anti-discrimination and neutrality, it risks undermining religious freedom in ways that are particularly detrimental to Muslim minorities. At the same time, the Court proceeds as if European constitutional systems were roughly homogeneous, disregarding the profound diversity of church–state relations. This double-blind spot makes the CJEU’s approach not only normatively troubling, but structurally ill-suited to the realities it seeks to address.