Europe’s cultural battles are increasingly decided by unaccountable judges in Luxembourg’s Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), rather than elected national parliaments\u2014a trend condemned at the \u201cCourts at the Forefront of Europe\u2019s Value Conflicts\u201d conference held February 27, 2026, at Budapest’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speakers highlighted how the CJEU advances a liberal-progressive agenda on gender identity, same-sex marriage, media regulation, and freedom of expression, undermining national sovereignty and traditional values. Martin Mendelski, researcher at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, described it as a clash between a legal-secular, progressive worldview and a Christian-traditional-national one, emphasizing conflicts over sovereignty and morality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andr\u00e1s Osztovits, professor at K\u00e1roli G\u00e1sp\u00e1r University, noted EU leaders like CJEU President Koen Lenaerts push for deeper political integration through activism. Andr\u00e1s T\u00f3th, president of the Central European Lawyers Initiative, traced the shift to 2014 under Jean-Claude Juncker, when institutions began using legal rulings to impose progressive ideas, bypassing political debate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rodrigo Ballester, head of MCC\u2019s Centre for European Studies, cited CJEU expansions like mandating cross-border recognition of same-sex families and gender-neutral language, exceeding EU competences. He flagged an upcoming ruling on Hungary’s 2021 child protection law, where Advocate General Tamara \u0106apeta’s preliminary opinion claims restricting pro-LGBT content for minors violates \u201cEU values.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hungary\u2019s EU Affairs Minister J\u00e1nos B\u00f3ka criticized the CJEU for acting as a federal constitutional court, engaging in \u201csocial engineering\u201d on Europe’s future\u2014decisions that belong in political arenas, not courts. This judicial activism exemplifies EU elites’ assault on national traditions, forcing woke ideology that erodes family values and cultural heritage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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