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 combination of economic and political panic seems to be driving the European Union into an expanding series of short-term backsliding over long-term strategic planning. The...
His favourite bands, his support for Everton FC and his propensity to wear t-shirts seem to have caught most of the attention of Europe’s media...
Public broadcasters find themselves currently in the line of fire in the battle over media and democracy. It’s one aspect of the wider struggle over...
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...
