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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/ba70fa1e7c1d89f9 https://verfassungsblog.de/to-identity-and-beyond/ To Identity and Beyond? - Commission v Hungary and the constitutional identity rationale Scholtes, Julian eng 2026-05-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Art. 2 TEU Commission v Hungary Constitutional Identity Identity Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Commission v Hungary proved, unsurprisingly, yet another bold leap forward in the Court’s value jurisprudence. Central to the reasoning of the Court has been the notion that Article 2 forms part of “the very identity of the Union as a common legal order”, which popped up five times in the 44 short paragraphs of the Court’s reasoning on Article 2. While much attention has already been paid to the judgment, the role of the Court’s “identity rationale” in the judgment merits a separate examination.