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 crisis of confidence in politics is accepted as a given on many sides of the political divide. Particularly those who want to stop the...
The rules-based international order that saw a growth spurt after the Second World War is currently being tested to the breaking point, or so it...
Europe’s defences don’t just suffer from an American or NATO problem, they’re much more fatally undermined by a European problem. That is the takeaway not...
The main question that the Israeli attack on Iran raises is what the endgame will be. Will it result in the maximalist demands of Israel...
When Ukraine revealed this week that it had deployed AI in its spectacular Spider’s Web drone attack on Russian bombers, the news should not have...
