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.
The chances of all-out war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah are greater now than at any time in recent years but that doesn’t necessarily mean...
How can European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen end up in the unlikely company of leaders such as India’s Narendra Modi and South Africa’s...
Europe is facing a turbulent time in the wake of European parliament elections that have confirmed the rise of the far-right and the unpopularity of...
The elections for the European Parliament taking place 6-9 June offer an opportunity for gauging the political direction in the years ahead in member states. As...
One of the more startling election billboards that can be seen around Brussels these days certainly belongs to the far-right Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang,...
