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.
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When pro-independence parties on 12 May for the first time in years lost their majority in the Spanish region of Catalonia, it was easy to...
