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

Elections to be held in a slew of countries the coming weeks are likely to feel the ripple effects of Trump’s erratic policies, or worse… my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

What’s not coincidental is that the campaigns are all, to one degree or another, affected by #DonaldTrump and his disruptive tendencies. That is certainly true for Canada, but it also plays a role in Australia, Poland and Romania – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/trump-looms-...

Squabbles over all the main issues, from economic policy to migration to defence, have cast doubt on the prospects for a stable and unified German coalition – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/will-germany...

Germany: new coalition same old squabbles. Will it be able to help steer Europe in these difficult times? My latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

While both the UK and the EU talk a good game about the need for closer cooperation, particularly on defence and security, neither side seems prepared to take concrete steps to realise this – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/uk-risks-fur... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

With the UK falling over itself to curry favour with the US to get a trade deal, further divergence from the EU is on the cards, rather than rapprochement - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

On useful idiots, fellow travelers, opportunists, cowards and gaslighting against democracy - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The toolbox of the campaign to dismantle the model that we’ve become familiar with in the West is vast and diverse. A central part of it is to destroy trust in institutions, processes and experts – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/democracys-e...

Cuts to international aid are ideological and aimed at getting rid of the system rather than reform it - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The return of the Israeli hostages in Gaza has never been the only, or even the main, objective; the elimination of Hamas is – By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/an-increasin...

The UK and US are not know for acting against their own interests, so how come they’re now perpetrating huge acts of national self-harm? - my latest for BCU’s Centre for Brexit Studies

An escalating crisis in Bosnia will test EU resolve and American reliability - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Should Ukraine come to fall under the new Russo-American dispensation, Europe will be left vulnerable to threats and extortion, even more than it already is – By @ferrybiedermann.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/alone-divide...

Let’s be clear, Ukraine stopped Russia, thus: “Instead of acquiescing to the dismantling of the Ukrainian state and army that achieved this, Europe would do better to use that strength and integrate it into its defences.” My piece for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Trump’s idea of a transactional foreign policy is not exactly new, but he takes it to shameless, performative, heights- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

If Germany catches a nasty right-wing cold, the whole of Europe goes goose stepping- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Yes, it’s time to saddle another UK Labour Prime Minister with the American poodle epithet. He’s working hard to earn it - my latest for the Centre for Brexit Studies