%0 Journal Article %A Cruz Mantilla de los Ríos, Pablo %T European Constitutional Identity as the Unamendable Core of the EU Treaties %D 2024 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10433/26162 %X European constitutional identity as an implicit limit to amending EU treaties – General trend towards acknowledging implicit constraints to constitutional amendments as well as empowering supreme courts and constitutional courts to monitor ‘unconstitutional constitutional amendments’ – Substantive limits to revising EU treaties essentially based on Article 2 TEU – Conditionality mechanism rulings as a point of departure for speculating on the emergence of a European constitutional identity – ECJ’s competence to review EU treaty amendments with a self-restrained approach as a last resort mechanism. %K Constitutional identity %K Unconstitutional constitutional amendments %K EU values %K EU treaties %~