Austria is entitled to refuse a public subsidy to the ‘Free Church of the Seventh-day Adventists’ for one of its private schools based in Austria, the European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday 2 February (Case C-372/21). The reason for the refusal is that the religious denomination in question is not a recognised religion in Austria.
The ‘Free Church of the Seventh-day Adventists’ is recognised in Germany, but not in Austria. It went to court in Austria after the Austrian...