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BBC News - Newsday: Will Boris Johnson get a deal with the EU?

Sam Lowe
04 September 2019
MPs in the United Kingdom have succeeded in the first stage of their attempt to pass a law which would block a no-deal Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted that the threat of the UK leaving without a deal is vital to him negotiating with Brussels. So, how much progress have those negotiations made to date? Sam Lowe is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for European Reform.

Tok FM: Na naszych oczach rodzi się ogromny kryzys konstytucyjny w Wielkiej Brytanii

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
28 August 2019
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform commented on Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament.

BBC World at One: 26/8/19

Sam Lowe
26 August 2019
Sam Lowe a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke to the World at One about Boris Johnson’s objectives for a trade agreement with the US (from 34 mins). 

BBC News: Trade agreement with the US

Sam Lowe
25 August 2019
Sam Lowe a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke to BBC News about Boris Johnson’s objectives for a trade agreement with the US. 

BBC News: PM in Paris

Sam Lowe
22 August 2019
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke to BBC News today about Prime Minister Johnson's visit to Paris today and his discussions with President Macron (from 12:26 mins).

NPR: Can UK's new Prime Minister pull off Brexit? Here's what to know

Sam Lowe
19 August 2019
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a London think tank, lays out what many consider is Johnson's Plan B or perhaps his ultimate strategy: "Boris Johnson calls a general election and uses the narrative, 'It's the people versus Parliament.

BBC Radio 5 Live - Brexitcast: Brex on the Beach

Sam Lowe
19 August 2019
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform joined Adam Flemming, Georgina Wright and Anand Menon to discuss the last few weeks in Brexit.

BBC Radio 4 - Today programme: US-UK trade deal: Too good to be true?

Sam Lowe
13 August 2019
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform discussed US-UK trade deals, and if deals could be done sector by sector (from 06.48am).

BBC News: Post-Brexit trade deals

Sam Lowe
13 August 2019
“One of the possibilities...is perhaps a deal by which Trump says to the UK I'll exclude you from my trade war tariffs if you support us on Huawei, or Iran, or China – this would technically be a quick deal if not a fully-fledged free trade agreement”, Sam Lowe, a...

Sky News: Brexit trade

Sam Lowe
13 August 2019
John Bolton is not a trade envoy–his concerns are Iran, China, Huawei “He is using the carrot of a potential free trade agreement with the US -something the UK and Brexit supporters have wanted for a while- as a means of applying pressure to the UK” Sam Lowe, a senior...

Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine: Facebook Ads and Trade Deals

Sam Lowe
13 August 2019
“The UK does need to decide: if it just wants to throw all its eggs into one basket with the US when at this moment in time the person running the US isn’t maybe the stable genius that he likes to think he is?” Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform told Jeremy Vine (from 13:36).

BBC World News: Post-Brexit trade deals

13 August 2019
“The US is a strong operator in trade agreements – it tends to get what it wants by being tough and pursuing its own interests, and it will make use of the fact that Britain post-Brexit will be very much in bad need of a trade deal" Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform tells BBC World.

BBC News: UK heading for no-deal Brexit

06 August 2019
UK appears to be heading for a no-deal Brexit, Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform tells BBC News with Boris Johnson making Theresa May's red lines redder and harder to cross. “The way out of it is for Boris Johnson to reconsider those red lines, but at the moment that’s not the position he’s in”.

The Spectator Podcast: Will the EU compromise for Boris?

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
02 August 2019
As the UK government ramps up its no deal Brexit planning, is there any chance of a compromise with the EU on a deal? In this week’s magazine, James Forsyth looks at how seriously Brussels is taking Boris Johnson’s threats. He suggests that until parliament signals it can pass a deal, the EU...

Sky News: New Prime Minister

01 August 2019
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska argued that a threat to withdraw 39 billion euro was not a wise negotiating strategy. She pointed out that it would also undermine the UK’s credibility in the eyes of other global powers who the UK wants to strike free deals with.

Voice of America: As Brexit storm gathers, Britain looks to Trump for hope

01 August 2019
In the US, the Democrats control the House of Representatives and have vowed to uphold the Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland — something imperiled by Brexit, said John Springford of the CER.

Channel 4 News: EU must recognise current Brexit deal not going to pass Commons

29 July 2019
As the government ramps up its no deal planning, Boris Johnson has insisted a new deal with the EU is still a possibility.

ZDF: Vorgeschmack auf den Brexit

29 July 2019
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform spoke to ZDF about Brexit from (1.35 mins).

NHK: New UK Prime Minister

26 July 2019
Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform spoke to NHK about Boris Johnson's appointment as Prime Minister (from 2.20 mins).

Parliament Live: International Trade Committee - IT failures in the financial services sector

Sam Lowe
24 July 2019
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, along with Dr Lorand Bartels, Dr Anna Jerzewska and Robert Hardy, gave evidence on IT failures in the financial services sector.