http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20260430-173344-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-red-lines-of-european-society/ The Red Lines of European Society - Article 2 TEU After Commission v Hungary von Bogdandy, Armin Spieker, Luke Dimitrios eng 2026-04-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Article 2 TEU Commission v Hungary EU Europeean society EU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Court of Justice ruled on 21 April 2026 that the Hungarian law portraying non-heterosexual and non-cisgender persons as dangerous violates the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU. The decision is historic. We focus on what we see as its two central innovations. First, after years of academic controversy, there is now clarity: Article 2 TEU itself is a justiciable provision that sets enforceable red lines as a separate ground in infringement proceedings. And second, the Court advances a collective singular to which it attributes the EU legal order: European society.