EU Elites Force Woke Ideology Through the Courts
27th February 2026
A conference held on Friday, February 27th, at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest examined the growing role of European courts in driving the EU’s progressive agenda.
The event, titled “Courts at the Forefront of Europe’s Value Conflicts,” focused on the expanding influence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Issues such as gender identity, same-sex marriage, media regulation, and freedom of expression are increasingly being decided by judges in Luxembourg rather than by elected national parliaments.
Martin Mendelski, a researcher at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, argued that different EU member states have developed their own historical and cultural understanding of the rule of law. By contrast, EU institutions promote a more universal interpretation.