2451-4993 De-Europeanisation in Slovenia: 2020–2022 Kubas Sebastian author Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach Correspondence to: Sebastian Kubas 04 12 2025 Tom XXXIV 2025 485 503 Copyright © 2025 2025 The EU has faced multiple crises in the 21st century which have undermined the belief in the Europeanisation process. As a result, parties with Europopulist slogans have started to gain increasing levels of social support in parliamentary elections and have created cabinets in a few countries. Slovenia for an extended period of time was perceived as the best pupil of the EU in Central Europe. But the financial crisis in 2008, the migration crisis in 2015 and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis has undermined trust in the values and rules of the EU and the Europeanisation process. Between 2020 and 2022 Janez Janša became the head of the cabinet and started using Europopulist ideas which have deteriorated liberal democracy and introduced an illiberal version. 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