nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ba70fa1e7c1d89f9 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260520s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ba70fa1e7c1d89f9 doi eng 342 23 Scholtes, Julian Author aut To Identity and Beyond? - Commission v Hungary and the constitutional identity rationale Scholtes, Julian Verfassungsblog 2026-05-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Art. 2 TEU Commission v Hungary Constitutional Identity Identity Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/to-identity-and-beyond/ raw object