Through the examination of different critical voices (sidelined mostly by the mainstream academic outlets), this contribution will try reconstruct an alternative story of the so called transition from communism to democracy. Why is this important? This paper will identify a different trajectory of transition from communism to democracy by way of demonstrating the already existing tensions between the European project and its ideology of (ordo)liberalism which might help us understand the seemingly recent surge of alternative (constitutional) projects in the CEE region. Avoiding the mainstream narrative of the reasons for the current crisis of the European project and the difficulties it is facing in the CEE region, it will focus on the mechanics of the ordoliberal project of the EU and its visible effects in the CEE region.