The Irish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, met the EU's negotiator for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, Michel Barnier of France, and the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, on Monday 4 September, to reiterate his country's red lines in these negotiations. He stressed the potentially “extraordinarily negative” impact that Brexit may have on Ireland, as the Minister put it in a statement made alongside Barnier.
The Irish Minister stressed his...