http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20161227-110755 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-game-of-values-particular-national-identities-awaken-in-europe/ A Game of Values: Particular National Identities Awaken in Europe Majtényi, Balázs eng 2016-12-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Authoritarianism brexit Identity Politics Illiberal Democracy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The EU’s legitimacy is thin and this weakness is reflected in its impotence in the face of the drift towards authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe. It remains to be seen whether such an authoritarian turn as the Hungarian can happen in old democracies and if their institutions are strong enough to limit the effects of global processes which are shaping the national identities of societies and the impact of Member States on the shared EU framework.