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.
German mainstream politics is out of ideas and that’s very bad news not only for Europe’s largest economy but also for the rest of the...
Even now, it’s still probably premature to declare the end of Western liberal democracy, the way Francis Fukuyama in 1992 (in)famously trumpeted its dominance in...
It’s not too early to deliver a judgement on this year’s US presidential campaign, which has now almost run its course. From an international vantage...
Europe’s once thriving space industry is being buffeted by international competition, particularly from Elon Musk with his SpaceX and Starlink ventures. The sector exemplifies the...
Listening to many European politicians in recent weeks, one might be forgiven for thinking that the EU is facing no more serious challenge than the...
