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.
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...
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu – the EU must be getting that sinking feeling as the US and China hash...
The run-up to the Dutch elections shows one thing above all others: voters are confused, uncertain, and easily swayed. Recent elections have shown large cohorts ping-ponging...
