Ferry Biedermann is a journalist with extensive experience in covering European politics and Middle East. He is also a visiting fellow at Birmingham City University's Centre for Brexit Studies. He writes from Amsterdam on European and global affairs for, among others, The New European and The Lancet. He’s a former Middle East correspondent, based in Amman, Beirut, and Jerusalem, for The Financial Times and de Volkskrant, and for many years contributed country risk reports to Jane’s Intelligence Weekly. Ferry Biedermann reported from Iraq before, during, and after the 2003 invasion and covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years. He has also contributed to, among others, The Thompson Reuters Foundation, The Washington Post, The National, CNBC, and Foreign Policy.
The World Health Organisation’s recent report on the worrying increase of antimicrobial resistance, AMR, is but the latest signal that our global systems are not...
Responsibility for the eventual outcome of the war in Ukraine is increasingly being shifted towards Europe. Both the US and Russia have in recent months...
Europe is still living through a populist moment, just like many other places around the globe. Evidence from a series of elections and polls suggests...
Donald Trump did something quite uncharacteristic at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. No, not the latest apparent U-turn on Ukraine. He...
NATO’s – or rather, Europe’s – response to the incursion of a swarm of Russian drones into Poland might have been adequate had there not...
