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.
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is often mentioned in one breath with that other long-ruling illiberal authoritarian, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. And so it was once more...
Negotiations to end the current round of violence in the Middle East or make the Iran ceasefire permanent will need to overcome not only distrust...
One of the biggest gripes of voters in a wide swathe of Western democracies appears to be the utter fecklessness of politicians – the perception...
European unpreparedness for the geopolitical, security and economic crises that are currently ripping across the globe should have alarm bells ringing in every capital on...
Europe’s far-right parties have made remarkable gains in a recent series of votes across the continent, although their rise is often overshadowed by narratives of...
