Varadkar's tough week just got tougher

The Taoiseach now faces an even greater challenge as the EU leaves him to deal with the British and the Irish border issue

It’s been a very tough week for Leo Varadkar. And it’s just got tougher. When Donald Tusk gave Leo a seemingly unlimited discretion to determine whether Britain had made a sufficient commitment on the Irish border question to permit the Brexit talks to proceed to the second stage on December 14, it was a mixed blessing.

What seems indistinguishable from a veto is, in effect, a veto. Leo must now write in the ...