Ferry Biedermann

Iran fog of war hides Palestinian root cause Israel and the US are misidentifying the core of many of the Middle East’s security problems as being Iran, while ignoring a root cause: the fate of the Palestinians

Israel and the US are deliberately misidentifying the core of many of the Middle East’s security problems as being Iran, while ignoring a root cause: the fate of the #Palestinians - By
@ferrybiedermann.com
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#IranWar‌ #Trump #Netanyahu

Iran fog of war hides Palestinian root cause Israel and the US are misidentifying the core of many of the Middle East’s security problems as being Iran, while ignoring a root cause: the fate of the Palestinians

Israel and the US: let’s pretend all our problems go away if we deal with Iran - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Europe fades on the world stage amid lack of leadership What Europe needs desperately is a new bunch of leaders who will chart their own course, rather than being overly preoccupied with surveys and electoral extinction

What #Europe needs desperately is a new bunch of leaders who will chart their own course, rather than being overly preoccupied with surveys and electoral extinction - By
@ferrybiedermann.com
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#Starmer #Macron #IranWar

Europe fades on the world stage amid lack of leadership What Europe needs desperately is a new bunch of leaders who will chart their own course, rather than being overly preoccupied with surveys and electoral extinction

Europe’s reaction to the Iran crisis is all over the place. It’s just one symptom of a lack of leadership and political direction in major countries- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

On Iran, be careful what you wish for In Iraq, we saw both the perils of ill-thought-out interventions and the laws of unintended consequences. It should give pause to those rushing to war

In Iraq, we saw both the perils of ill-thought-out interventions and the laws of unintended consequences. It should give pause to those rushing to war - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#Iran #Trump #Israel

On Iran, be careful what you wish for In Iraq, we saw both the perils of ill-thought-out interventions and the laws of unintended consequences. It should give pause to those rushing to war

Iran, Iraq, they’re all the same… well no, actually- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

For refugees, Europe becomes cold as ICE The EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum looks more like a publicity exercise than a serious attempt to regulate migration across the bloc

The EU is following the far-right, Trump and ICE script on migration, with all that follows for democracy and human rights - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Buy European or goodbye EU? If the leaders do not agree on ambitious EU-wide measures, the current fragmentation might actually grow, rather than be diminished

The EU must by now be leading internationally in ‘competitiveness’ meetings, what an achievement - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Money still makes the world (order) go round In one way or the other, it all does come down to money, and it might be a good idea for middle powers to start by putting some of it where their mouth is

Money makes the world order go round - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

A bespoke ‘emergency’ EU membership for Ukraine? Given Europe’s existing commitments to Kyiv, it might not even be that much more costly in the long run compared with having to keep supporting it from the outside

The EU should stop pussyfooting around on Ukraine - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Greenland and the repositioning of France’s far-right France’s RN is trying very hard to gain admittance to this ostensibly more moderate, and hence government-worthy club

Notwithstanding its newfound zeal to defend European sovereignty, France’s far-right Rassemblement National remains profoundly anti-EU and hence also a favourite of Trump’s MAGA project - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/greenland-an...

Greenland and the repositioning of France’s far-right France’s RN is trying very hard to gain admittance to this ostensibly more moderate, and hence government-worthy club

France’s RN trying very hard to be mainstream Gaullists - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The impact of Trump’s winning streak Things appear to be going very well for Donald Trump, going into the second year of his second term as US president

The impact of #Trump 's current policies need not be consequential or long-lasting, it just needs to be highly visible and dominate the news cycle - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#USIran #Greenland

Slow economic recovery playing havoc with German politics Continued doubts about the country’s economic future are going to weigh heavily on political stability, not only domestically but also throughout the continent

Germany, new darkness at the heart of Europe? My take for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The landscape of normalisation should not be flat If there is a systemic crisis in the West, an idea that populists and extremists seek to exploit, then media and journalism are definitely part of it

A good rant at knobheaded mainstream politicians is all well and good but we should not forget that many alternatives are much, much worse - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Israel’s democracy fails 7 October probe test The US under Donald Trump is actively helping to worsen Israel’s internal safeguards by demanding a pre-emptive pardon for Netanyahu in his corruption trial

The failure to have a full inquiry into 7 October further signals Israel’s democratic decline - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Let’s hope AI comes for our jobs or our pensions – not both Someone will have to do the job, and that someone could very well be an AI. As the technology evolves, that could happen in as yet unforeseen ways

Someone will have to do the job, and that someone could very well be an #AI . As the technology evolves, that could happen in as yet unforeseen ways - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#JobSecurity #unemployment

Let’s hope AI comes for our jobs or our pensions – not both Someone will have to do the job, and that someone could very well be an AI. As the technology evolves, that could happen in as yet unforeseen ways

We’re all replaceable, but even AI 🤖 says it shouldn’t be trusted to write about itself, so here’s my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

EU-deregulation in the age of emulation If the cliché holds, the Brussels bureaucracy and its political paladins are patronisingly aloof and set in their ways

The European Union has taken another step on the journey from being a rule maker to becoming a rule taker - By
@ferrybiedermann.com
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#Regulation

What do Trump and his envoys talk about with Putin and Xi? China’s threats towards Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are acts of aggression, regardless of supposed historical territorial claims

Towards a Putinov-Ribbentrump pact? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Europe’s defence and tech misses might be mounting Europe’s big hitters should realise that the stakes have become a lot higher in recent years and act accordingly

Just as the need for European cooperation on defence and technological independence is becoming glaringly obvious, the EU is facing the implosion or ‘scaling back’ of several crucial projects - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#Defense

The dangers of returning to the status quo ante in the Middle East Any ‘peace plan’ or otherwise that does not address this issue head-on as a first step rather than somewhere down the line is not worth its name

“The security situation will need to be underpinned by political progress.” Duh 🙄- my latest on Israel and its wars for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

UK-EU reset price-tag adds to Starmer’s woes As with so many other obstacles that Starmer and Labour are running into, the reset ructions seem to be partly of their own making

With u-turns on taxation and plummeting Labour poll numbers, does the country even care that Starmer’s EU reset plans are a shambles? - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

UK-EU reset price-tag adds to Starmer’s woes As with so many other obstacles that Starmer and Labour are running into, the reset ructions seem to be partly of their own making

As with so many other obstacles that Starmer and Labour
are running into, the reset ructions seem to be partly of their own making - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#Brexit #RESET

Merz’s ill-advised rush to repatriate Syrians An imminent mass return from Germany to Syria seems unlikely, making this a dangerous issue for Merz to stake his reputation on vis-à-vis the AfD

Germany’s Syria debate veers dangerously close to dreams of mass expulsion- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Can mere trade blocs compete with superpowers? The EU is still primarily an economic and trade bloc and functions best on the international stage when engaged in what remain its core functions

When confronted with geopolitical issues, the EU has neither an effective voice nor a capacity to respond quickly and flexibly - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#EUChina #Tariffs #nexperia

Dutch voters still all over the place In the Netherlands, voters also know that whatever party they opt for, it will inevitably have to rule in a coalition

It’s almost as if people don’t know what they want, and certainly not what they need - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Ganging up on Geert Wilders Wilders’s party is on course to win the most seats - but an opposition coalition could keep him out of power. Just

Dutch elections column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

We’re only getting worse at dealing with global systemic risk Deaths from climate change number in the tens of thousands and AMR already in the millions

Antimicrobial resistance, climate change and artificial superintelligence, all pose relatively imminent and growing dangers to humanity - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#AMR #AI #climate

Ukraine fatigue as a strategic goal? This is exactly the kind of new world order that both Trump and Putin have in mind. Neither Europe’s leaders nor its people can afford to become too fatigued to resist it

It is hard to contemplate Trump’s #Ukraine policy without taking into account his, and his administration’s, deep-seated hostility towards the #EU - By @ferrybiedermann.com
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#UkraineWar