The Dangerous Idea of a European Society Based on Common Values Höpner, Martin Author aut Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-06-26 eng
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 The CJEU began to treat the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU as justiciable legal norms in its ASJP judgment from 2018. In its 2026 judgment in Commission v Hungary, it took the further step of treating those values as justiciable stand-alone norms and justified that step by invoking the existence of a European society. This contribution approaches the matter from a social-science point of view. I argue that the Article-2-TEU claim of a European society is theoretically unconvincing, empirically untenable, and politically dangerous. CC BY-SA 4.0 Höpner, Martin Article 2 TEU Commission v Hungary EU European Society European Values Rechtssoziologie EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/european-society-based-on-common-values/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/d3c75a7cc7732937 260626 10.59704/d3c75a7cc7732937 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)