The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, met the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, in Dublin in the early evening of Wednesday 15 January. At the centre of their discussions: Brexit, scheduled for the end of January, the European Green Deal and the post-2020 European budget.
While announcing Parliamentary elections on 8 February to mark a new page with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, the Taoiseach recalled the European red lines in the negotiation box on...