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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/lets-hope-ai... #JobSecurity #unemployment

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

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

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

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/europes-defe... #Defense

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

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

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/uk-eu-reset-... #Brexit #RESET

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

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

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

Dutch elections column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

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

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/ukraine-fati... #UkraineWar

If there is growing Ukraine fatigue in Europe it appears to be mostly on the political level - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The current right-wing #populism thrives on promoting hatred, both towards vulnerable minorities and elites, and then crying wolf when called out on it - By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/europes-popu...

Even if they don’t get to govern everywhere right now, Europe’s populists are still on the rise… my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Trump appears to have engaged in a damage-limitation exercise aimed at Arab and Muslim leaders - By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/has-trump-sh... #dohaattack #Israel #Egypt

Can the US still be trusted to underwrite the Middle East’s creaking Pax Americana? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

There is blood in the geopolitical water, and the sharks are circling to tear pieces off a floundering Europe - By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/is-europe-ov... #UkraineWar

Norwegian Labour’s resurrection might offer hope to left and centre parties elsewhere currently languishing in polls that are led by the far-right - By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/despite-a-wi... #Norway #election2025

If the left can just about hang on in wealthy Norway, what are its chances elsewhere? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Muscular migration controls are having their day - My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

C’est le bordel, as they say in France… my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Lebanon, still caught between so many rocks and hard places - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Is the EU dropping the ball in Serbia? - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

How Trump’s ‘woke AI’ order is a shot across the bow for EU regulation- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The elephant in the conference room - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Syria’s still uncertain sectarian future - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

1/3 of EU budget still goes to farm subsidies. 📊 Defense, tech & debt needs are rising. 🏛️ Brussels must rethink priorities—but farmers are pushing back hard. A defining battle for Europe’s future is underway: tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-eus-shif... By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social

Expect years of big farmers’ protests as the EU finally tackles subsidies - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Starmer and Macron sweep Brexit under the Bayeux carpet, sorry, tapestry - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

As NATO faces global tests, the deeper threat may be within Europe itself: political fragmentation, far-right surges, and sovereign-first mentalities that undermine unity and trust. 👇 Analysis by @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social 🔗 tomorrowsaffairs.com/there-are-no...

European defence is a misnomer. As political polarisation grows, how willing will even EU members be to fight for each other? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The likelihood of Iran giving in to Benjamin Netanyahu’s and Donald Trump’s demands for a full surrender, at least on the nuclear issue, is low - By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/israel-iran-...

Israel-Iran, no way out of the muddle - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

AI is being developed in a hyper-capitalist moment, with little eye for social context and benefit. Value extraction is everything, equity almost doesn’t enter the equation. Can this end well? – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/inflection-p...

We’re living through an AI inflection point and, as ChatGPT says, no one is really in charge - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The end of the sock puppet show that called itself the government of the Netherlands- my latest for @theneweuropean.bsky.social

Europe, like much of the rest of the world, is way off kilter, with far-right blocs exerting growing and long-term influence - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The hard-right has shown that it can gain popularity, rather than lose it, in the countries where it is in power – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/europes-falt...

Europe’s migration debate flares up again as the far-right flexes its muscles - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

A very dry spring causes early climate stress in Europe this year, and we don’t even know yet what the summer will bring… my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Even now, when parts of Europe are suffering from possibly one of the worst droughts since records began, the EU is considering steps to further appease farmers and reduce the impact of environmental policies on them – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-pays-...

If there is new American thinking on the Middle East, it might be gleaned from how the US approaches other regions. It has made clear both in Asia and in Europe that it expects local allies to do the heavy lifting - By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/trump-and-ne...

You don’t call, you don’t visit, you don’t even ask how I’m doing anymore… Israeli kvetching about Trump is totally beside the point - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

On the link between right-wing populism and vaccine hesitancy that is helping to fuel measles outbreaks - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Vaccination coverage in the Global North is falling below the required 95 per cent of the population that’s needed for herd immunity – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/maga-measles...

In the long run Europe will have to find different solutions, and none of them, not on a technology or manufacturing level, nor in terms of geopolitics, should rely on China – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/are-eu-tarif...

The EU will have to be much smarter about catching up to China and the US on renewables, batteries and EVs, rather than just trying to copy unsustainable practices - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social