Has the Slovak Constitutional Court (SCC) engaged with the concept of constitutional identity ? If so, what are its key tenets and how has it evolved ? Recent scholarship has explored the constitutional identity discourse in Czechia, 2 Hungary 3 and Poland 4 regarding the relationship between national constitutional orders and EU law (Hungary, Czechia), as well as authoritarian populist attacks in Hungary and Poland. 5 Yet, these phenomena have so far remained largely unexplored in Slovakia, despite its moving history. Unlike in the rest of the Visegr á d group, the fall of communism did not continue as a democratic success story in early 1990s Slovakia. Instead, the country faced four years of the semi-authoritarian rule of Vladim í r Me čiar, 6 which halted the progress of integration into EU and seriously impeded the establishment of early democratic institutions.