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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20260429-173409-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/heavy-artillery-light-reasoning/ Heavy Artillery, Light Reasoning - A Doctrinally Thin but Significant New Autonomous Standard of Review under Article 2 TEU Kaiser, Lena eng 2026-04-29 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Article 2 TEU C-769/22 EU Rule of Law Values EU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.