While open to listening to Ms May’s proposals over the Brexit standoff, Mr Varadkar again struck down claims that technology was a solution, warning that this would still create a hard border. Mr Varadkar will also discuss renewed support for Ireland’s position by member states with European Council president Donald Tusk in Brussels on Wednesday, as well as preparations for a no-deal scenario with commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. Mr Varadkar reiterated that Britain could remove the spectre of it crashing out of the union. She still insisted there would be no new hard border. Mr Varadkar immediately shot down fresh talk of technology preventing a hard border, an option rejected by the EU during the original Brexit talks.

Source: Irish Examiner February 04, 2019 04:30 UTC