Survival of the European (Dis) Union

John Theodore is a trained barrister and a former director of European Projects at Manchester Metropolitan University, and for over fifteen years he directed numerous multinational ERDF projects, providing business and technical support to SMEs in the UK and throughout Central and Eastern Europe. As an academic he has published in a number of international law journals and lectured in business and international law. He has been a visiting Professor at Warsaw University of Applied Sciences, Poland where he was awarded the Senate Medal of Merit. He has been a speaker at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels and a legal adviser to businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. Recent books include The European Union and the Eurozone under Stress: Challenges and Solutions for Repairing Fault Lines in the European Project (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Cyprus and the Financial Crisis: The Controversial Bailout and What it Means for the Eurozone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

• 1. A Hierarchy of Threats.- 2. The survival of the Euro: whatever it takes.- 3. Immigration: what now?.- 4. Populism.- 5. The EU's Illiberal Democracies.- 6. The EU, China and their changing relations.- 7. Re-invigorating the EU Project.- 8. Conclusion.