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Breaking: Leo Varadkar will meet the French President Emmanual Macron this afternoon ahead of the informal EUCO. Both leaders will sign a letter on the next stage of the Celtic Interconnector, the proposed electricity cable between Ireland and France.
Irish source says he "wouldn't rule out" an exchange on the spitzenkandidat issue ahead of tonight's dinner in Brussels, but stressed the meeting will be brief.
The Celtic Interconnector is a proposed 500km power cable that will link southern Ireland and north west France which will provide Ireland’s only direct energy connection to an EU Member State if and when the UK leaves the EU
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1/ "The scars of the past [in Ireland] have not yet fully healed.

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addressing Irish President Michael D. Higgins: "We know the border issue...is not just a problem for your country. We have to see it as a European one and we will continue to do that, so you can be assured of our ongoing solidarity."
Asked about Jeremy Hunt's claim that Angela Merkel was ready to do a deaI on the Withdrawal Agreement, President Steinmeier said: "I hope there is no increase in the fantasies of people who support a no-deal Brexit...
"...and that those who have sympathy for this option don’t overlook the consequences... I hope that in the near future we will work with a leadership in the UK that operates on the basis of a realistic scenario, not one that is wished for."
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Taoiseach Leo @LeoVaradkar on the top jobs:
1/ The nomination of the German Defence Mininster Ursula Von Der Leyen as Commission President, and the other nominations, was "a very good outcome overall for Ireland and Europe."
2/ He was "confident" Ireland would enjoy the same solidarity from Ms Von Der Leyen as they had from the outgoing Jean-Claude Juncker on the Brexit issue.
3/ "She’s somebody who is from the CDU in Germany, somebody who is part of the political family [the European People's Party] which I belong to with Fine Gael, somebody who is part of a group of people who have always stood by Ireland through these issues.
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