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.
A nasty row between Ukraine and Poland over a WWII massacre of ethnic Polish civilians is a timely reminder of Europe’s dark past and the...
Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire. An entire country, Albania, being riven by protests against Jared Kushner’s mega-resort. Donald Trump signing a ceasefire with...
European leaders, just told by the American president who’s the boss at the G7 summit in Evian, must be hoping that Donald Trump’s wings will...
A recent paper extolling the virtues of AI for deliberative democracy whisked me right back to the early days of the internet when that new...
The European Union’s controversial new Pact on Migration and Asylum is set to come into force mid-June but is unlikely to calm Europe’s ever more...
