Elio Di Rupo does not regret Brexit decision

Belgium's Socialist Party chairman and former prime minister Elio Di Rupo does not mind if the UK leaves the European Union, he told a group of students on Tuesday in Louvain-la-Neuve. He also suggested that the EU is caught in a “neoliberal spiral”, writes Het Nieuwsblad.

"I'm glad they are leaving,” said Di Rupo (pictured), who went on to tell his “awful” experience sitting next to the former British prime minister David Cameron at a number of European summits. “He never once said the word 'Europe' out loud, and he never accepted the use of the word during social negotiations.”

Di Rupo is equally unconcerned about the fate of the United Kingdom: "They have managed to dominate the world with us, and they will continue to do so without us," he said.