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.
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The German Bundestag elections this weekend are fateful both for the country and for Europe. The outcome does not seem to be in doubt, with...
There appears to be a big, and growing, disconnect between Donald Trump and the Arab world. In the almost three weeks I spent recently in...
Listen up, kids. Yes, I’m talking to you, majority of English Gen-Z men who apparently favour Britain being run by a dictator, and especially those...
Europe has a China problem that’s being made a lot worse by its evolving US problem. The EU, on the one hand, has a flourishing...
