Leo Varadkar in Granada, Spain, where he will hold bilateral talks with Rishi Sunak as part of the European Political Community summit.Leo Varadkar in Granada, Spain, where he will hold bilateral talks with Rishi Sunak as part of the European Political Community summit.Ireland’s prime minister has said he is concerned to see the UK “disengaging from the world”, and accused it of turning inwards by leaving the EU, slashing international aid and now considering abandoning a human rights treaty.
He will tell the British PM that his plans to go ahead with legislation to give an amnesty to people accused of killing during the Northern Ireland Troubles were a breach of the convention that supports justice for all. Sunak is also holding a bilateral with Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, after they both managed to force migration on to the unofficial agenda.
“This sends a strong message to Putin, that from Dublin to Chişinău that we do not tolerate aggressors against a sovereign state,” she said.