Heavy Artillery, Light Reasoning - A Doctrinally Thin but Significant New Autonomous Standard of Review under Article 2 TEU Kaiser, Lena Author aut Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-04-29 eng
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 In its judgment of 21 April 2026 in Commission v. Hungary (C-769/22), the CJEU took the decisive step: its “value turn”. The Court for the first time applied Article 2 TEU as an autonomous and standalone review standard. The judgment deploys what might be called heavy artillery. Yet, the firepower of the instrument stands in uneasy tension with the lightness of the reasoning marshalled to justify its use. Nonetheless, the critical observations advanced by Riedl ultimately underestimate both the structural logic of the EU legal order and the functional mandate of the Court. CC BY-SA 4.0 Kaiser, Lena Article 2 TEU C-769/22 EU Rule of Law Values EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/heavy-artillery-light-reasoning/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20260429-173409-0 260429 10.17176/20260429-173409-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)