nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190116-210608-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190111s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190116-210608-0 doi eng 342 23 Delledonne, Giacomo Author aut Rationalising political representation within the European Parliament: the Italian Constitutional Court rules on the threshold for the European elections Delledonne, Giacomo Verfassungsblog 2019-01-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In December 2018, the Italian Constitutional Court found the national 4% threshold for elections to the European Parliament to be constitutional. Unlike the Bundesverfassungsgericht, which focused in-depth on the European state of affairs at a given stage, the Corte costituzionale has pointed to a gradual evolutionary development towards “a rationalisation of the representation of political forces within the European parliamentary assembly”. According to this interpretation, both the national parliaments and the European Parliament face similar challenges. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 elections Electoral threshold European Parliament Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/rationalising-political-representation-within-the-european-parliament-the-italian-constitutional-court-rules-on-the-threshold-for-the-european-elections/ raw object