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A few years ago, the German Constitutional Court had to rule on the significance of stable majorities in the European Parliament. Such majorities were not terribly significant, was the conclusion reached by the Court – at least not important enough to justify a three percent threshold for elections to the EP, laid down in German federal law. Under the constitutional conditions of the moment, the Court explained, the formation of a stable majority was not needed in the EU ‘for electing and continuously supporting a government capable of acting’. These past few weeks, a crisis has been unfolding in Brussels and Strasbourg that may turn out to be an interesting test case for the German Court’s analysis. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 van Rossem, Jan Willem funded by the government European Parliament Jean Claude Juncker Political Commission Spitzenkandidaten Process Threshold 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-the-grand-coalition-and-the-significance-of-stable-majorities-in-the-european-parliament/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20161214-095537 161214 10.17176/20161214-095537 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)