A decade after the Brexit vote, Europe has moved on even if Britain hasn't - AOL

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Meanwhile, Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said he dreams of "Breturn", while Spain's leader Pedro Sánchez told the New Statesman earlier this year "we miss the UK within the EU".
64% : The former president of the European Council, Charles Michel, told the Guardian this month he expected the EU would react with "a positive spirit" if the UK ever requested to rejoin.
63% : "The trade and cooperation agreement leaves the EU pretty satisfied in economic terms.
61% : They seem to be broadly OK." *** From Brexit to Breturn?
57% : Faull, who resigned from the Commission after a 38-year career following the 2016 vote, said:"The final deal that was done is very much to the EU's advantage.
55% : For the EU, by contrast, Brexit is a historical episode viewed with detachment.
55% : "What the EU will be looking for, I think, is a UK that has a stable and durable national consensus.
54% : As the Guardian's correspondent in the city, after a few hours' sleep, I hurried to a breakfast briefing with Conservative MEPs at a smart hotel in the EU quarter.
53% : The then-president of the European parliament, Martin Schulz, told me that EU lawyers were studying whether it was possible to speed up the triggering of article 50, the then-obscure and untested EU exit clause.
53% : Then European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker declared he would like to get Brexit negotiations started "immediately".
53% : After the initial shock, the EU rallied.
53% : A poll published this week found that 60% of those aged 18-28 would support rejoining the EU.
52% : Two-thirds of EU citizens would also support Britain rejoining the bloc: a poll for the European Council on Foreign Relations found 66% of respondents across 15 countries either "strongly supported" or "tended to support" UK membership.
51% : The EU would need to see a durable national consensus that the UK has really changed its mind.
48% : The morning of24 June 2016, the day after Britain voted to leave the EU, dawned grey and overcast in Brussels, after a stormy night.
48% : Jonathan Faull, the former head of the European Commission's UK taskforce, said the EU has got used to Brexit.
46% : Since the Brexit vote, the EU has embarked on common borrowing, along with joint purchases of weapons, gas and vaccines - decisions that would have been almost certainly more difficult with a British prime minister at the table.
46% : Georg Riekeles, who worked for the EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, thinks rejoining is a long-term prospect that ultimately depends on a British consensus.
44% : I think Frost and co negotiated badly," he said referring to Lord Frost, the UK's erstwhile chief negotiator on the post-Brexit agreement.
42% : During its 47 years inside the European project, the UK was often a sceptical voice on deeper EU integration, negotiating opt outs or seeking to block decisions perceived as too federalist.
41% : The EU carried on in the face of fundamental challenges: a global pandemic, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the return of Donald Trump, energy price shocks and fierce economic competition from China.
39% : A few top British EU civil servants prepared to resign.
37% : A decade later Britain is heading for its seventh prime minister in 10 years, while its relationship with the EU remains contested.
37% : In the UK, Britain's relationship with the EU remains disputed.
34% : In the EU institutions officials broke down in tears.

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