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

France, June 25 -- "The project empirically proved to be a failure. Economically, socially, politically, the UK is worse off," says Federico Fabbrini, founding director of the Brexit Institute and a professor of law at Dublin City University.

The EU Referendum of 23 June, 2016 was sold by Leave activists as a break with Brussels and a chance to restore British sovereignty.

But, according to research published by the Dublin-based Brexit Institute, it has left the UK dealing with slower growth, weaker trade, political frustration and an unresolved debate about its place in Europe.

The EU, meanwhile, has emerged more united than before in some respects, Fabbrini argues, with unprecedented joint borrowing through the NextGenerationEU recover...