For the EU, Brexit Is Over as Farage Tells Barnier He’s Won

While the U.K. grapples with a Brexit deal that almost no one thinks its parliament will approve, the European Union is looking the other way.

Fewer than a tenth of the European Parliament’s 751 elected members bothered to turn up to a debate on Brexit in Brussels on Thursday morning. There were more people in the public gallery than there were lawmakers in the chamber.