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»Thresholds in the Multi-Level System of European Electoral Law«: After the German Federal Constitutional Court declared first the 5%- and then the 3%-threshold of the national electoral law for the European elections unconstitutional in two controversial rulings from 2011 and 2014, the European elections in Germany take place without such a provision. In light of a European initiative to introduce a binding threshold through EU law the study analyzes the requirements that exist for the introduction of thresholds in the multi-level system of European electoral law.