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.
There’s a lot of not-so-subtle messaging in all the reports stating that the United States has now built up to its largest military presence in...
The European Union is taking a raft of measures to ensure implementation of its tough new Pact on Migration and Asylum by June this year....
Nobody can accuse the European Union of taking major decisions with reckless alacrity, even when the stakes are high and the pressure is on. And thus,...
All of a sudden, at the start of 2026, there’s a rush to declare the old world order over. In some cases, accompanied by either...
Could the EU buy Ukraine? It sounds like a flippant commentary on the current geopolitical situation. It’s totally far-fetched. But is it? To call it ‘buying’...
