The chapter is concerned with an account of norm transformation that captures subtle resistance practices in the form of hidden transcripts. It first briefly reviews contestation practices as per the literature on international norms, before introducing James Scott’s notion of hidden transcripts and adapting this to the study of contestation. The final section discusses the case of Euro-Mediterranean community model of integration, and the Energy Community in particular, highlighting how contestation did not appear to be about rejecting or eroding particular norms, but rather one of engaging with, while expressing private discord towards the public ‘wider Europe’ script. The result, as reflected on in the conclusions, is a gradual re-situationing of the meaning-in-use level of normativity, prompted not by vocal entrepreneurship or rejecting forms of ‘liberal script’ but rather by low-frequency or ‘hidden’ contestatory practices that slowly have repurposed the general interaction frame structuring Euro-Mediterranean relations altogether.