With allies like these, who needs enemies? - my latest for Tomorrow’s Affairs

Some pacts might have a sell-by-date, but others form the pillar of a stable world order and should not so easily be messed with - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/shifting-all... #NATO #Trump #IranWar‌

Erdoğan’s heavy-handed policies give the bloc the excuse it needs to hold off on closer ties while still having enough leeway to cooperate where it counts for Brussels - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/for-the-eu-e... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu #Erdogan #Imamoglu #Orban

Hungary was an irritant, but for the EU, Turkey poses more of a dilemma - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war, but it won’t bring stability to the Middle East- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

The Iran war has not just shown the utter emptiness of Europe’s role on the world stage. It has made clear how helpless the continent, including Britain, is to defend its own interests - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/another-uk-e... #UKEU #Brexit #IranWar‌

Brexit, the gift that keeps on resetting- my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

For Ukraine the only choice seems ever greater self-reliance and extending its alliances further afield - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/ukraine-the-... #IranWar‌ #Gulf #Trump #Ukraine

Nobody likes to spend money on weapons but not having hard power also comes at a price - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Europe’s far-right is here to stay, is the message from recent election results across the continent. For those who were wishing them away, my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Enshittification everywhere, not just online - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social

Enshittification and Trump’s transactional way of dealing with the world are two sides of the same coin - By @ferrybiedermann.com tomorrowsaffairs.com/an-online-ph... #Trump #AI

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/iran-fog-of-... #IranWar‌ #Trump #Netanyahu

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

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/europe-fades... #Starmer #Macron #IranWar

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

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/on-iran-be-c... #Iran #Trump #Israel

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-impact-o... #USIran #Greenland

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

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

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

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