Ferry Biedermann
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Journalist - @tmrwsaffairs, @TheLancet, @TheNewEuropean, others... Visiting fellow at @BCU_Brexit Centre for Brexit Studies
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1 week ago |
tomorrowsaffairs.com | Ferry Biedermann
It’s a sad commentary on the world when one of the surest ways to explain what’s going on is a reference to the 2006 futuristic movie parody Idiocracy. It depicts a USA on the brink of starvation because it waters its crops with an energy drink. How far off is that from the current US Health Secretary recommending vitamin A for measles?
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2 weeks ago |
tomorrowsaffairs.com | Ferry Biedermann
The world is still waiting with bated breath for how the Trump trade wars will pan out. Tariffs, we are to understand from all the recent turmoil in global markets, are bad news. Yet, now it seems that sky-high EU ‘anti-subsidy’ import duties on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) are starting to have at least some effect. The first indications of much lower Chinese EV shipments already came last November, immediately after the tariffs of up to 45.3 per cent were introduced.
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3 weeks ago |
tomorrowsaffairs.com | Ferry Biedermann
After the blockbuster global election year of 2024, a series of new high-stakes polls are converging coincidentally at the end of April and the beginning of May. What’s not coincidental is that the campaigns are all, to one degree or another, affected by Donald Trump and his disruptive tendencies. That is certainly true for America’s northern neighbour, Canada, but it also plays a role in Australia, Poland and Romania.
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4 weeks ago |
tomorrowsaffairs.com | Ferry Biedermann
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 less than a week after the conservative election winners, CDU/CSU, reached a deal with the third-placed social-democrat SPD. There’s a small but significant chance that the coalition might not even see the light of day.
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1 month ago |
tomorrowsaffairs.com | Ferry Biedermann
The looming Trump trade war has once again laid bare the fallacy of a UK-EU rapprochement on the things that really matter. The UK government, while denying that Brexit is the reason it might receive relatively preferential treatment from Washington, is doing everything it can to appease the American administration, risking ever greater divergence from Brussels.
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On the link between right-wing populism and vaccine hesitancy that is helping to fuel measles outbreaks - my latest for @tmrwsaffairs https://t.co/kFp2Js9ypz
RT @tmrwsaffairs: Vaccination coverage in the Global North is falling below the required 95 per cent of the population that’s needed for he…
RT @tmrwsaffairs: In the long run Europe will have to find different solutions, and none of them, not on a technology or manufacturing leve…