Bárbara Machado

Bárbara Machado

Energy, Environment and Transport Journalist

Bárbara joined Euractiv in May 2024 as an Energy, Environment and Transport Journalist. She has experience in policy-making in the environmental field, as she worked for almost four years as an advisor at the Portuguese Government, Ministry of Environment, and did a traineeship at the ENVI Committee for 7 months. Bárbara holds an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe, and she is currently completing a Master’s Degree in Environmental Law, Natural Resources and Energy at the University of Lisbon.

  • Location: Brussels
  • Languages: Portuguese, English, French
  • Expertise: Environment, climate change mitigation and adaptation, nature conservation, circular economy
  • Location expertise: Lisbon and Brussels
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Latest posts from this author

Energy, Environment & Transport

Lithium quest sucks EU into internal Serbian tensions

10/10/2024

4 min. read

Economy

Letta says his European rail vision hinges on completion of Capital Markets Union

03/10/2024

3 min. read

Maritime

Negotiators inch closer on global price for shipping emissions

30/09/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Negotiators inch closer on global price for shipping emissions

30/09/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Heat pump sales plummet, nuclear re-evaluates incoming EU Commission, Energy Charter Treaty crusade continues

25/09/2024

11 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Hyperloop: from sci-fi to priority for next EU transport commissioner

20/09/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

New transport commissioner gets guarded welcome from MEPs and stakeholders

18/09/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

The Green Brief – Von der Leyen plans for five more years of furious energy, climate rule-making

18/09/2024

7 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

MEPs split on how to halt European car factory closures

12/09/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

The Green Brief – What Brussels players think about the Energy Union

11/09/2024

7 min. read

Politics

Past TAP privatisation deal may shake Portuguese Commissioner nominee

06/09/2024

2 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Vienna’s climate plan kicks off la rentrée

21/08/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

European railways: big goals but lacking political will warns train campaigner

13/08/2024

5 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

IPCC: last plenary session fails to set timeline for next climate assessment reports

07/08/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

EIB and Deutsche Bank join forces to lift EU wind production

02/08/2024

3 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Von der Leyen’s second attempt at single-ticket rail travel

31/07/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

International flights to be exempted from mandatory contrails reporting

30/07/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Bikes, greenwashing and equality: The passions of the new ENVI, TRAN and ITRE Parliament Committee chairs

23/07/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Pilots launch bathroom campaign against one-pilot-only flights

22/07/2024

3 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Energy, environment tensions underpin Strasbourg high politics

17/07/2024

5 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

An Olympian effort to put hydrogen cars back on the map

16/07/2024

4 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Eleven energy and environment MEPs to watch

12/07/2024

7 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Environment ministers in Budapest: What’s on the agenda

11/07/2024

3 min. read

Energy, Environment & Transport

Waiting for a new French government, Brussels can breathe a bit

10/07/2024

6 min. read

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