http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/c1743dd2eb54f028 https://verfassungsblog.de/winning-by-losing-egenberger/ Winning by Losing - The Egenberger Decision and the Reconfiguration of Religious Freedom in Germany Mahlmann, Matthias eng 2025-11-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CJEU Case C‑414/16 Deutschland EU Charter Egenberger German Federal Constitutional Court Right to Self-Determination communities’ corporate religious freedom freedom of religion Deutschland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The FCC has handed down its long-awaited decision in the Egenberger case. The decision seems to be a confirmation of the strong protection of religious communities’ corporate religious freedom and right to self-determination. At the same time, however, the FCC incorporated the standards set out in EU anti-discrimination law and CJEU’ jurisprudence. The decision is thus turning the page on a decades-long legal debate. It meaningfully protects the right to religious self-determination, and at the same time it is sensitive to the freedom of religion of individuals and the prohibition of discrimination.