Kristina Kausch

Deputy Managing Director & Senior Fellow, GMF South
Brussels Office
GMF South
Staff,
GMF Expert
My Areas of Expertise:
Authoritarian Interference Foreign Policy Security and Geopolitics Technology and Democracy Transatlantic Relations
European Union Mediterranean Middle East

Kristina Kausch is deputy managing director and senior fellow, GMF South. She is also the German Marshall Fund’s resident representative in Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses on Europe’s relations with its neighborhood and broader geopolitical trends in the Middle East.

Prior to joining GMF, she held positions with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Spanish think tank FRIDE, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the German development cooperation agency GIZ. She has provided articles and commentary to a range of outlets including the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico, El País, Middle East Eye, Tagesspiegel, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Media Mentions

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Kristina Kausch
“ Over the past decade, on the Israel-Palestine crises, the 27 nations of the bloc have barely managed to put out any common statements. As a result, EU policy on the Israel-Palestine dossier, a key benchmark for the EU’s effectiveness as a global actor has been helplessly stalled. ”
Al-Jazeera
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Kristina Kausch
“ Once in power, the PP may take up its traditional backseat in EU politics, said Kirstina Kausch, a Madrid-based senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund, and not make any major waves.

“I worry more about the rise of the Spanish Right in the European Parliament elections and a stronger conservative majority. Imagine what would have happened with the Nature Restoration Act. Maybe the Parliament would have rejected it,” she said. ”
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The Telegraph
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Kristina Kausch
“ Let's remember that in 1994 Russia already gave security guarantees through an agreement between Moscow and Kiev and today we see the result of those guarantees. Nobody trusts Russia. Whatever Russia signs has no value in guaranteeing Ukraine its security. If anyone can give them, it is the countries Ukraine trusts, which are the allies in Europe and the United States. ”
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RTVE
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Kristina Kausch
“ It’s threatening NATO from below. The Russians have felt encircled by NATO – and now they want to encircle NATO. ”
AP News

Featured Work

Europe Wakes Up to Catalonia

Since pictures of Spanish policemen beating peaceful citizens flooded TV channels and social networks on October 1, the inner-Spanish dispute over the...
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Kristina Kausch
Pol Morillas