Christian Schweiger is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His research interests concentrate on the institutions, policies and the member states of the European Union (particularly the UK, Germany and the Central and Eastern European countries), the political economy of the EU Single Market, economic globalisation and transatlantic relations. He coordinates the UACES collaborative research network The EU Single Market in the Global Economy. He is the author of Britain, Germany and the Future of the European Union (Palgrave 2007), The EU and the Global Financial Crisis: New Varieties of Capitalism (Edward Elgar 2014) and is currently writing a new book on the EU’s legitimacy crisis.