nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170111-091119 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170110s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170111-091119 doi eng 342 23 Halmai, Gábor Author aut The Hungarian Constitutional Court and Constitutional Identity Halmai, Gábor Verfassungsblog 2017-01-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Ever since the 2010 parliamentary elections Hungary has set off on the journey to became an ‘illiberal’ member state of the EU, which does not comply with the shared values of rule of law and democracy, the ‘basic structure’ of Europe. The new government of Viktor Orbán from the very beginning has justified the non-compliance by referring to national sovereignty, and lately to the country’s constitutional identity guaranteed in Article 4 (2) TEU. This constitutional battle started with the invalid anti-migrant referendum, was followed by the failed constitutional amendment, and concluded in early December last year by a decision of the Constitutional Court, in which the packed body in a binding constitutional interpretation rubber-stamped the constitutional identity defense of the Orbán government. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Identity Constitutional Review Court Packing Hungarian Constitutional Court Identity Control Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-hungarian-constitutional-court-and-constitutional-identity/ raw object