A no-deal Brexit could lead to the reunification of Northern Ireland and put the UK in a difficult position, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said.
"One of the things that could really hurt (the UK), paradoxically, is a hard Brexit, both for Northern Ireland and Scotland," Varadkar said yesterday evening at a summer university in Donegal.
"This is a problem they have to face," he added, quoted today by many media outlets.
The new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is demanding from the European Union a new separation agreement that removes the so-called Irish "safety net" (a clause that provides for relief measures in the event of the BM's departure for Northern Ireland), a request deemed unacceptable by the EU's negotiator, Michel Barnier.
