Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director

Katinka Barysch is the deputy director. She has written extensively about Russia, Turkey, Central and Eastern Europe and about all aspects EU enlargement. She also works on European economic reforms, globalisation, energy questions and EU institutional change.

Katinka has acted as an advisor to the EU Select Committee of the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum and other organisations, as well as EU governments and a number of financial institutions and business federations. She regularly comments on European developments in the media, and she was twice nominated for the Rybczynski Prize of economic writing by the Society of Business Economists.

Katinka joined the CER in July 2002. Before that, she was an analyst and editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, specialising in Eastern Europe and Russia. Until 1998, she worked as a consultant in Brussels, where she was also involved in formulating the European Commission's strategy towards the East European candidate countries.

Katinka gained an MSc in International Political Economy with distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science, Economics and Law from Munich University. She speaks German, French and some Russian.

Main areas of expertise: EU enlargement, Russia, Turkey, energy, economics.

CER publications:

• Who is winning Eastern Europe's great game?
  (insight article, 19 July 2010)
  
  
• Germany, the euro and the politics of the
  bail-out
  (briefing note, June 2010)
  
  
• Shale gas and EU energy security
  (CER insight article , 11 June 2010)
  
  
• Can the EU help Russia modernise?
  (CER insight article, 28 May 2010)
  
  
• Russia and the West: Is the reset working?
  (bulletin article with Tomas Valasek June/July 2010)
  
  
• The dangers of a disgruntled Germany
  (CER insight article, 7 May 2010)
  
  
• Should the Nabucco pipeline project be shelved?
  (policy brief by Katinka Barysch, May 2010)
  
  
• Whatever happened to the G20?
  (CER insight article, 14 April 2010)
  
  
• Turkey's turmoil
  (CER insight article, 1 April 2010)
  
  
• Can and should the EU and Russia
  reset their relationship?
  (policy brief, February 2010)
  
  
• How to build an EU energy market
  (CER insight article, 18 February 2010)
  
  
• The new Commission's economic
  philosophy
  (policy brief with Charles Grant, Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte, February 2010)
  
  
• Pipeline politics: Why Nabucco is stuck
  (CER insight article, 29 January 2010)
  
  
• Can Turkey combine EU accession
  and regional leadership?
  (policy brief, January 2010)
  
  
• Gazprom's uncertain outlook
  (CER insight article, 18 December 2009)
  
  
• What Eastern Europe can learn from the crisis
  (CER insight article, 11 November 2009)
  
  
• Is Turkey Iran's friend?
  (CER insight article, 4 November 2009)
  
  
• Westerwelle for finance minister
  (CER insight article, 29 September 2009)
  
  
• Russia: A tale of two crises
  (CER insight article, 3 July 2009)
  
  
• The Europeans at the London summit
  (CER insight article, 1 April 2009)
  
  
• In the name of EU solidarity
  (bulletin article, April/May 2009)
  
  
• The real G20 agenda
  (CER insight article, 13 March 2009)
  
  
• Why enlargement is in trouble
  (CER insight article, 24 February 2009)
  
  
• New Europe and the economic crisis
  (briefing note, February 2009)
  
  
• Just another gas crisis?
  (CER insight article, 7 January 2009)
  
  
• State, money and rules:
  An EU policy for sovereign investments
  (essay with Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte,
  December 2008)
  
  
• What the summit says about the EU
  (CER insight article, 16 December 2008)
  
  
• PCA? The EU needs a real Russia debate
  (CER insight article, 24 November 2008)
  
  
• Beyond banking: What the financial crisis means for the EU
  (policy brief with Hugo Brady, Charles Grant, Bobo Lo, Clara Marina O'Donnell, Simon Tilford, Tomas Valasek and Philip Whyte, October 2008)
  
  
• Another Great Depression?
  (CER insight article, 15 October 2008)
  
  
• Pipelines, politics and power
  The future of EU-Russia energy relations
  (report with contributions from Andris Piebalgs, Konstantin Kosachev, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Cliff Gaddy, Dmitri Trenin, Roland Götz and many others, edited by Katinka Barysch, October 2008)
  
  
• The EU's toolbox for Russia
  (CER insight article, 15 September 2008)
  
  
• Should Europeans care about Doha?
  (CER insight article, 30 July 2008)
  
  
• The EU's new Russia policy starts at home
  (briefing note, June 2008)
  
  
• Can Europe and China shape a
  new world order?
  (report with Charles Grant, May 2008)
  
  
• Turkey's turmoil, the EU's reaction
  (CER insight article, 10 April 2008)
  
  
• A joint response to the credit crunch
  (CER insight article, 19 March 2008)
  
  
• The Lisbon scorecard VIII:
  Is Europe ready for an economic storm?
  (report with Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte, February 2008)
  
  
• Kosovo – the economic dilemma
  (CER insight article, 29 February 2008)
  
  
• Turkey's role in European energy security
  (essay by Katinka Barysch, December 2007)
  
  
• China is losing its EU friends
  (CER insight article, 29 November 2007)
  
  
• EU-Russia: no more ambitions
  (CER insight article, 1 November 2007)
  
  
• The CER guide to the Reform Treaty
  (briefing note with Hugo Brady, October 2007)
  
  
• What should Europe do about
  sovereign wealth funds?
  (bulletin article with Philip Whyte,
  October/November 2007)
  
  
• What Europeans think about Turkey
  and why
  (briefing note, August 2007)
  
  
• Poland's poll and the EU treaty
  (CER insight article, 24 August 2007)
  
  
• Where next for Turkey?
  (CER insight article with Charles Grant,
  24 July 2007)
  
  
• Russia, realism and EU unity
  (policy brief, July 2007)
  
  
• Reciprocity will not secure Europe's energy
  (bulletin article, August/September 2007)
  
  
• Portugal's presidency
  (briefing note by Katinka Barysch, July 2007)
  
  
• Why Europeans don't have babies
  (CER insight article, 29 June 2007)
  
  
• What the summit says about the EU
  (CER insight article, 26 June 2007)
  
  
• Turkey before the election
  (CER insight article, 15 June 2007)
  
  
• G8 and world politics
  (CER insight article, 11 June 2007)
  
  
• Sarkozy, secularism and Turkey's
  European future
  (bulletin article, June/July 2007)
  
  
• Three questions that Europe must ask about Russia
  (briefing note, 16 May 2007)
  
  
• What Turkey's crisis means for the EU
  (CER insight article, 3 May 2007)
  
  
• Globalisation: business versus politics?
  (CER insight article, 20 April 2007)
  
  
• We are all Nordics now, or are we?
  (bulletin article, April/May 2007)
  
  
• The future of the single market
  (CER insight article, 2 March 2007)
  
  
• The Lisbon scorecard VII:
  Will globalisation leave Europe stranded?
  (report with Simon Tilford and Aurore Wanlin, February 2007)
  
  
• The wrong benchmark for Eastern Europe
  (CER insight article, 25 January 2007)
  
  
• Why the UK needs to back
  Commission energy plans
  (CER insight article, 12 January 2007)
  
  
• What to expect from the German
  presidency
  (briefing note, January 2007)
  
  
• If Turkey and the EU break up...
  (bulletin article with Charles Grant,
  December 2006/January 2007)
  
  
• Climate change:
  Western business can help China and India
  (CER insight article, 17 November 2006)
  
  
• The EU and Russia:
  From principle to pragmatism
  (policy brief, November 2006)
  
  
• Absorption capacity - the wrong debate
  (CER insight article, 10 November 2006)
  
  
• EU-Turkey relations: One year on -
  Turkey's progress towards the EU
  (September 2006)
  
  
• Europe's new division of labour
  (bulletin article, June/July 2006)
  
  
• Enlargement two years on:
  Economic success or political failure?
  (briefing paper for the Confederation of Danish Industries and the Central Organization of Industrial Employees in Denmark, April 2006)
  
  
• The Austrian EU presidency and the future
  of the constitutional treaty
  (briefing note, 24 January 2006)
  
  
• East versus West? The EU economy after enlargement
  (essay, January 2006)
  
  
• Some advice for Turkey
  (bulletin article, December 2005/January 2006)
  
  
• East versus West? The European economic and social model after enlargement
  (essay, October 2005)
  
  
• Why Europe should embrace Turkey
  (report with Heather Grabbe and Steven Everts,
  September 2005)
  
  
• Liberal versus social Europe
  (bulletin article, August/September 2005)
  
  
• The economics of Turkish accession
  (essay, July 2005)
  
  
• Embracing the dragon
  The EU's China partnership with China
  (report with Charles Grant and Mark Leonard,
  May 2005)
  
  
• One year after enlargement
  (bulletin article, April/May 2005)
  
  
• Ukraine should not be part of a
  'great game'
  (briefing note with Charles Grant, December 2004)

• The EU and China
  (bulletin article, December 2004/January 2005)

• Is Tax competition bad?
  (bulletin article, August/September 2004)

• The EU and Russia:
  Strategic partners or
  squabbling neighbours?
  (report, May 2004)

• Is Europe working?
  (bulletin article, December/January 2004)

• Germany - the sick man of Europe?
  (policy brief, December 2003)
  
  
• A pact for stability and growth
  (policy brief, October 2003)
  
  
• It it's broken, fix it!
  (bulletin article, October/November 2003)
  
  
• The CER guide to the draft constitution
  (joint CER publication, policy brief, July 2003)
  
  
• Britain and the euro: How to reap
  the benefits
  (opinion paper, June 2003)
  
  
• Does enlargement matter for the
  EU economy
  (policy brief, March 2003)
  
  
• The euro and prices
  (policy brief, March 2003)
  
  
• Russia and the WTO
  (report with Robert Cottrell, Franco Frattini,
  Paul Hare, Pascal Lamy, Maxim Medvedkov and
  Yevgeny Yasin, December 2002)
  
  
• New designs for Europe
  (joint CER publication, December 2002)
  
  
• Who's ready for EU enlargement?
  (working paper with Heather Grabbe,
  November 2002)