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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/13a335ddac0c6dcc https://verfassungsblog.de/ecj-western-values-gender/ Whose Values? - Rethinking the Use of Values in EU Law Through the CJEU’s “Feminist” Asylum Cases Nosrati, Narin Tomaselli, Davide eng 2025-06-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CJEU ECJ European Court of Justice Europäischer Gerichtshof | Luxemburg (Stadt) Feminism Feminismus [Motiv] asylum gender equality migration law Europäischer Gerichtshof | Luxemburg (Stadt) Feminismus [Motiv] Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Value-based reasoning features prominently in CJEU case law, most recently in AG Ćapeta’s opinion in Commission v. Hungary. However, what is treated as absolute within the Union turns flexible and conditional in cases concerning asylum, integration, as well as anti-discrimination. A closer look at the “feminist” cases (WS, K and L, and AH and FN) reveals how “Western values”-centred reasoning is deployed at the Member State level and re-elaborated by the CJEU as the fundamental value of gender equality – opening the door to ideological reinterpretations.