Before it went insane, the UK played a positive antagonistic (to Germany) role, that I believe helped shaping some European institutions. The EU is in some way

Before it went insane, the UK played a positive antagonistic (to Germany) role, that I believe helped shaping some European institutions. The EU is in some way weaker, because it lost a very important state, in some way stronger because everybody can see the shitshow that Brexit is and nobody dares to propose Italy or France leave the Union. The UK is definitely weaker.