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.
With a dictator in the Kremlin and an authoritarian in the White House, it’s no wonder that the language of international diplomacy is becoming less...
Just as the need for European cooperation on defence and technological independence is becoming glaringly obvious, the EU is facing the implosion or ‘scaling back’...
After more than two years of horrific violence and hundreds of thousands killed and wounded, Israel has not decisively changed the balance of power on...
It feels almost cruel to add to Keir Starmer’s troubles, as the UK Prime Minister and Labour leader pre-emptively fights off a possibly imaginary leadership...
Germany, like most European countries at the moment, is in the throes of what can only be called Immigration Derangement Syndrome. The moment the subject...
