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.
Squabbles over all the main issues, from economic policy to migration to defence, have cast doubt on the prospects for a stable and unified German...
The looming Trump trade war has once again laid bare the fallacy of a UK-EU rapprochement on the things that really matter. The UK government,...
Call it what you will, through the looking glass, Bizarro world or a parallel universe, but we’re living in a strange and twisted caricature version...
Years ago, a department head I knew at a medium-sized international media organisation complained bitterly about the inefficiencies in his own operation and submitted a...
There’s a longstanding axiom in the Middle East that when militant leaders of groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas make threatening statements, they will eventually...
