http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170913-123503 https://verfassungsblog.de/hungarian-constitutional-identity-and-the-ecj-decision-on-refugee-quota/ Hungarian Constitutional Identity and the ECJ Decision on Refugee Quota Nagy-Nádasdi, Anita Rozália Kőhalmi, Barbara eng 2017-09-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Identity Hungarian Constitutional Court Resettlement Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The outcome of the lawsuit launched by the Hungarian Government against the EU Council’s decision on compulsory relocation of asylum seekers before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) took no-one by surprise, neither in Budapest nor elsewhere. Some may have hoped that the complaint would succeed legally, but nevertheless it has always been primarily a part of a well-devised political strategy based on the idea of national identity as a concept of constitutional and EU law.