Brexit at 10: 'Without the UK on board, the EU has integrated more'

Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, the UK faces a striking paradox: it voted to break free, but now finds itself more divided, economically stalled, and less influential on the world stage than Leave campaigners once promised. According to Federico Fabbrini at the Brexit Institute, the European Union may have quietly benefited from Britain's departure. With the UK stepping aside, the bloc moved forward more decisively on integration—fewer veto points, faster consensus building. RFI reports on a decade where one nation's exit became another's opportunity for deeper union.

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