Johnson met Varadkar at Thornton Manor in Cheshire on Thursday in a last ditch bid to save a deal and avert an acrimonious divorce on Oct. 31 or another delay.“I had a very good meeting with the prime minister … very positive and very promising,” Varadkar told Irish reporters. “I do see a pathway to an agreement in coming weeks.”
Ireland holds the key to any deal. It will have to consent to any solution to the hardest Brexit riddle of all: how to prevent the British province of Northern Ireland becoming a backdoor into the EU’s markets without having border controls. The Irish border has been largely invisible since army checkpoints were taken down after the 1998 peace deal largely ended the violence between the region’s pro-British majority and an Irish nationalist minority.
The Withdrawal Agreement that May struck says the United Kingdom will remain in a customs union “unless and until” alternative arrangements are found to avoid a hard border. The EU’s two most powerful leaders, Germany’s Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, will meet at the Elysee Palace on Sunday ahead of next week’s summit.
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