Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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European reaction to May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement defeat
There are no doubt some here who fear a hard, even chaotic, Brexit, with all the social and economic repercussions and potential bad blood.
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Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld: ‘UK’s influence in Europe has faded since Brexit vote’
The EU is getting ready for a possible request from London to extend Article 50 and delay Brexit. But on what terms and for how long? We speak now Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch MEP and one of the leaders of the liberal grouping in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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‘I just don’t think we would survive going through that exercise again’ – James Graham, author, Brexit: The Uncivil War
Is it too soon to make a drama out of events which are still taking place? James Graham’s new Brexit drama, which airs on Channel 4 this coming Monday evening, sets out to do exactly that. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dominic Cummings, the campaign director of Vote Leave.
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Post-Brexit future uncertain for Britons living in Germany
For more than a million British expats living in the European Union, the future is rather uncertain.
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UN Climate Talks reach agreement
Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Poland have finally reached agreement on new rules to cut harmful carbon emissions and tackle climate change.
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Macron promises change but ‘Gilets Jaunes’ left unimpressed
Last night saw President Macron speak publicly for the first time about the anti-government violence that have gripped the country for the last four weekends.
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Germany’s ruling party chooses Merkel protégé as new chairman
It’s the end of an era in Germany. The Christian Democrat party has chosen a new leader after 18 years with Angela Merkel at the helm. Her successor is a close ally and very much in the same mould. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Friedrich Merz, a one-time Merkel rival, in a run-off at the party congress in…
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May sells her Brexit deal to Welsh farmers
Welcome back to the Caer Beris Manor Hotel in Builth Wells in mid-Wales, the town where the Prime Minister came earlier to visit the Royal Welsh Winter Fair.
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Polish Prime Minister: “Theresa May can rely on Poland for Brexit deal”
Matt Frei met Prime Minister Morawiecki in his grand Warsaw office today over tea and roses. He began by asking him, whether the EU’s member states are as united over the Brexit talks as they say.
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Brexit minute: today’s news in 60 seconds
There is finally a draft Brexit divorce deal on the table. Only a handful of ministers have seen it so far, but that hasn’t stopped the speculation about who might support it and who might vote it down.
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Man shot dead after fatal stabbing in Melbourne terror attack
A man wielding a knife has killed one person and injured two others in the Australian city of Melbourne, at the height of the busy afternoon rush hour. The attacker, originally from Somalia, died in hospital after he was shot by police, while bomb squad officers managed to deal with several gas cylinders inside his…
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Moneyball author Michael Lewis talks Trump
Michael Lewis is one of America’s best-known authors. He has made a name and a fortune out of finding cat flaps, into big dramas. And many of his books like The Blind Side, Moneyball and the Big Short have been turned into acclaimed Hollywood movies. His latest book is called The Fifth Risk and it looks at the transition…
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Saudi-led airstrikes hit aid projects, say Oxfam
The charity Oxfam says some of the aid projects which it funds in Yemen have been hit by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, including a cholera treatment centre, accusing Britain of an “irresponsible and incoherent” policy in the country by continuing to sell arms to the Saudis.
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Turkey says Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled
The Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the consulate in Istanbul. That’s according to a Turkish prosecutor investigating the case.
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Angela Merkel to step down as German Chancellor in 2021
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down as leader of her Christian Democrat party, saying she took ultimate responsibility for her fourth term government’s poor showing in recent elections.
