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.
There’s a famous quip about European inability to act on the world stage, attributed, probably wrongly, to Henry Kissinger: Who do I call if I...
Amid the ongoing uncertainty over the conflict with Iran, an increasing regional military footprint and escalating repression of Palestinians, Israel is, more than ever before,...
In July, the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands is set to become the first major region in the EU with a comprehensive stop on...
One of the more puzzling aspects of the upcoming meeting between China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump is why it is taking...
Washington’s ‘epic fury’ at its European allies has flared up again after a short lull, with Donald Trump threatening to pull US troops out of...
