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.
Europe is still living through a populist moment, just like many other places around the globe. Evidence from a series of elections and polls suggests...
Donald Trump did something quite uncharacteristic at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. No, not the latest apparent U-turn on Ukraine. He...
NATO’s – or rather, Europe’s – response to the incursion of a swarm of Russian drones into Poland might have been adequate had there not...
Norway’s Labour party Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre used his election victory to claim that it is “possible for the Social Democrats to win elections...
A series of recent statistics in both the US and Europe are suggesting that harsh anti-migration measures are having an effect on arrivals. The US might...
