The new Slovenian state and its constitutional order have tried to establish themselves on the firm basis of a several hundred years old Balkan-type relationship towards the state, marked by a pre-modern, authoritarian and anti-liberal stance. It is also asserting itself after the expiry of fifty years of Communist rule which means a specific historical form of denial of the principal European democratic and constitutional traditions. In my view Slovenia is among those unfortunate transition countries which, after ten years, have so stagnated in their democratic development, that it is a typical case of "democracy with a broken backbone". I therefore, without hesitation, advocate a prompt, comprehensive, and consistent integration of Slovenia into the auspices, under the supervision and protection of the European constitutional order.