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.
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...
A sharply escalating crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina has seen the EU deploy more troops to bolster its small EUFOR stabilisation force in the country. Despite...
Were a major European country other than Ukraine, let’s say the UK or France, to be attacked tomorrow, what would the response be? European leaders...
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