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This week’s European Council summit is likely to be the last for outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been leading calls for Brussels to take a more proactive role in defending the rights of innocent Palestinian civilians. He has been 'pretty good on the Middle East' according to one senior source. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Brussels is expected to bid farewell to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar over the next two days after news spread that Thursday and Friday’s European Council summit is likely to be his last.

“We will have a farewell ceremony for him as we do for every leader, but it came as a big surprise so the video department is going nuts trying to go through footage to compile his best bits,” an EU official told the Irish Examiner.