nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b23629e3bfff7703 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251221s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/b23629e3bfff7703 doi eng 342 23 Mahlmann, Matthias Author aut Winning by Losing - The Egenberger Decision and the Reconfiguration of Religious Freedom in Germany Mahlmann, Matthias Verfassungsblog 2025-12-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Up to now, religious communities in Germany could require religious affiliation for almost all kinds of employment. Following the CJEU’s intervention, the FCC in November 2025 changed this decades-long practice and thus accorded greater constitutional weight to equality and non-discrimination vis-à-vis religious self-determination. Yet it did more than that: it also reinforced the protection of religious freedom itself. Finally, the decision affirmed the supremacy of EU law in times of fundamental challenges to the transnational rule of law. Egenberger thus constitutes a substantial, well-justified, fundamental-rights-friendly, and welcome shift. CC BY-SA 4.0 CJEU EU Egenberger Self-determination of Churches religious freedom (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/reconfiguration-of-religious-freedom/ raw object