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 UN conference in New York on the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine at first sight appears to have been oddly timed. Shouldn’t the first priority...
Syria’s post-Assad future is still uncertain, with a remarkable level of overall stability having been punctured twice now by heinous sectarian violence in which governing...
In a demonstration of power that is as familiar as it is depressing, Europe’s farmers this week headed for Brussels to give a warning shot...
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...
