ABSTRACT
The relationship between Hungary and the EU has changed very much during the last three decades, from enthusiasm to disappointment and to opposition. Membership in the EU, the Council of Europe, and NATO was a widely shared consensus among politicians in Hungary, which faded away after the successful accession. The present chapter follows the dynamics of this process and describes the interdependencies between law and politics of EU membership, the role of the Constitutional Court in adopting the German perspective on EU law, and the national Constitution in Hungary, including the transfer of national constitutional identity into Hungarian legal order as a shield against EU law. This development was supported by the rise of radical political movements, which nowadays are shared even by the ruling parties resulting in a culture war against the values of the EU.
