"While there will be a political border between our two countries, there should not be an economic one and any border that does exist should be invisible", Varadkar, the first openly gay prime minister of Ireland, said following his talks with May.
Talks aimed at propping up Mrs May's minority Government - after a disastrous General Election showing saw the Tories lose their parliamentary majority - are "ongoing", according to Downing Street sources who insisted the PM had never set a timeline on the negotiations.
The British side will be led by the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, David Davis, while the EU side will be led by the chief negotiator, Michel Barnier.
The EU's negotiating platform would mean there can be no talks on free trade with the United Kingdom until after progress is made on areas like citizens' rights.
A Number 10 source declined to comment when approached by IBTimes UK.
Mr Barnier, who was a senior European Union official involved in the peace process, acknowledged that "this is one of the most sensitive issues before us" and there was an "awful lot of work to do".
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Earlier, O'Brien said he is keen to assess Churchill's well-being within the next fortnight before he firms up plans for the dual Classic victor .
"The other problem in parallel with that is that without creating a new hard border, at the same time we have to come up with solutions - especially for goods and services - but in a way that is compliant with the normal rules and integrity of the internal market. We don't want arbitrary caps on migration that would crash the economy".
Last week, Sinn Fein and the SDLP, as well as the cross-community Alliance Party, warned that a deal would undermine attempts to restore the power-sharing executive at Stormont.
Senior DUP sources said on Tuesday that the negotiations "haven't proceeded the way we would have expected". We are talking about a confidence and supply agreement with them.
'On reaching such an agreement we will make sure that the details of that are made public so that people can see exactly what that is based on'.
Mrs May said today that the Government was "steadfast in our support for the Belfast Agreement", but the Blanch man said he did "relay concerns" about a possible deal.
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