The history of the European Union has never been easy and there has been a lot of disadvantages, leaps forward and setbacks that have shaped its path until the critical situation that we live nowadays. The exit of the United Kingdom represents a new reform to the EU and the effects of the so-called ‘Brexit’ are unknown. However, the biggest challenge that should be faced is the indifference of the citizenship due to the fact that the institutional, political and economic architecture is perceived as distant and external. The citizen’s perception of the EU institutions is reduced to subsidies, the improvement of infrastructures or to the greater or lesser freedom of the movement of people.

In this book, Pérez Casado aims to sum up some of the challenges and threats related to the future of the EU and to offer some proposals for its new foundation.

Ricard Pérez Casado is full-university professor of History and one of the founders of the Valencian Socialist Party (PSV). He was mayor of Valencia with the PSV-PSOE (1979-1988), president of the Spanish Committee of the World Cities Federation (1979-1982) and vice-president of the European Council for Towns and Regions (1983). Between April and July 1996 he was the administrator of the European Union for the city of Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina).