A decade after the Brexit referendum, a retrospective in Costa Rica’s La Nación offered a sobering assessment: the data confirms what many experts warned. The economic damage was not sudden and dramatic, but rather a slow erosion — reduced GDP, double-digit drops in investment, fewer jobs, and weakened productivity. “Paradoxically,” the analysis notes, one of the main populist arguments for leaving the EU has been thoroughly undermined by the outcome. Ten years on, Brexit looks less like liberation and more like a self-inflicted wound.
Walter Murrow
June 28, 2026
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