[Opinion]: Thanks, Brits – Brexit has vaccinated Europe against populism

Respected French journaist Jean Quatremer (Brussels correspondent of Libération) writes that even after the general election in June 2017 in the United Kingdom the rest of the EU does not know what the UK wants from Brexit. But Britain's act of self-harm has brought the EU’s members together, and dealt heavy blows to nationalists.

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