Isabel Marques da Silva
isabeldasilva.bsky.social
Isabel Marques da Silva
@isabeldasilva.bsky.social
Senior European Affairs Journalist, Brussels
🎬 👏 #EUDECODED bids farewell. Mission accomplished!
A wonderful year of deciphering #EU #policies has come to a close, with 47 episodes explaining the ins and outs, the pros and cons, of proposals that affect the lives of 450 million people in the EU. Thank you so much to all participants!😃
October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📍#EU DECODED TONIGHT: The European Commission has proposed a new #EU-#India Strategic Agenda, for the bloc to develop ties in #trade and #security, despita the contry's alliance with #Russia.
❗With MEP Angelika Niebler, chair of the Delegation for Relations with India and reporter Jorge Liboreiro.
September 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📍#EUDECODED TONIGHT: Can the #EU overcome divergence over #sanctions against #Israel, due to the worsening #humanitarian situation in #Gaza?
📍 Guests: MEPs Hildegarde Bentele (Germany, EPP) and Lynn Boylan (Ireland/The Left) and my colleague Maïa de La Baume
September 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📍#EU DECODED 16/9: #EU-#Mercosur Partnership Agreement foresees the creation of the world's largest free #trade zone. The process is being challenged by several sectors, notabely #farmers and a few #member #states.
🎬 Guests: Karel Lanoo, chief executive of CEPS, and my colleague Peggy Corlin.
September 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📍#EU DECODED on 9/9: we explain the response to #wildfires through the #EU's Civil Protection Mechanism and looks into the need of more #investment and policies directed towards #prevention.
🎬 Our guests are MEP Catarina Martins (The Left, Portugal) and my colleague Alice Tidey.
September 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📍 #EU DECODED tonight: "It was the best possible #deal," the European Commission said of the agreement reached on #trade #tariffs between the #US the #EU.
📍We explain the impact of the on the European #economy with Niclas Poitiers, Research Fellow at Bruegel.
August 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 22/7!
🌽 #EUDECODED explains why the #EU decided to impose higher #tariffs to fertilizers and some agricultural products from #Russia and what can be the impacts for #farmers
👩‍🌾Guests: Latvian MEP Inese Vaider (EPP), rapporteur on the decision, my colleague Gerardo Fortuna.
July 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 7/7!
🛰️ #EUDECODED explains the context for the new #Space Act,to boost #competitiveness in the sector, but there are also #security and #defence concerns
🚀The main guest is Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space
July 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 1/7!

🐶 #EUDECODED discusses whether the new #EU-wide #animal #welfare law will prevent the illegal #trade in #dogs and #cats and the mistreatment of these #pets
🐱 Guests: MEP Tilly Metz (Greens, Luxembourg) and my colleague Gerardo Fortuna.
June 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 24/6!
🌏 #EUDECODED details the legal reform of air #passenger #rights in the #EU
👉 Some #consumer rights are strengthened, but some changes could cost passengers more #money
👉 Guests: Agustín Reyna, DG at European Consumer Organisation and Gregoire Lory from Euronews.
June 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 17/6!

🌏 #EUDECODED explains the new European #Water Resilience Strategy
👉 1/3 of the #EU is affected by water #scarcity and with water #pollution and high demand for water, more #investment and #innovation is needed.
👉 With MEP Hildegard Bentele (EPP, Germany)
June 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE TODAY!

🌏 #EUDECODED explains the plans to boost #defence.
👉Is the new #financial instrument #SAFE (Security Action for Europe), worth 150bn euros, up to the challenge?
👉 Guests are MEP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Renew Europe, Germany)and my collegue Alice Tidey.
June 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE TODAY!
🌏 #EUDECODED explains the reform on #agriculture, with the @ec.europa.eu simplifying #farmers' #environmental obligations.
👉But how will it reform #CAP in the #EU #budget?
👉 Sarah Martin (Client Earth), Patrick Pagani (Copa-Cogeca) and Gerardo Fortuna (Euronews)
June 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 27/05
🌏 #EUDECODED explains the RepowerEU Roadmap that aims to ending Russian #energy imports to the #EU
👉 Guests are MEP Svetelina Penkova, one the vice-chairs of the Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy and my collegue Jorge Liboreiro
May 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 20/05
🌏 #EUDECODED looks in detail into the "Choose Europe" iniciative to make the #EU a powehouse in #Science.
👉 We invited Ekaterina Zaharieva, head of #startups, #research and #innovation at the European Commission, to discuss the long-standing challenges.
May 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
👉 #Negociação, #paz, #reconstrução foram as âncoras do debate.
👉 Para falar de #Gaza, #Ucrânia e #Papa Leão XIV .
👉 Não percam o próximo Bruxelas, meu amor, na Euronews, durante o fim-de-semana, em antena no website!
May 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 13/05
🌏 #EUDECODED explains the Entry/Exit System, a new digital #bordercontrol scheme that the #EU will soon implement, to increase #security and to prevent irregular #migration.
👉 The guests are MEP Asita Kanko (Belgium, ECR) and
my colleague Vincenzo Genovese.
May 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 06/05

🌏 #EUDECODED explains the #EU proposal to reduce #pollution from #microplastics, that afect all #ecosystems and can be harmful to all life.
👉 Guests are MEP Cesar Luena (Spain, S&D), and my collegue Gregoire Lory.
May 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 01/04 #EUDECODED explains the proposal to use New #Genomic Tecnhiques in #farming. Guests: MEP Christophe Clergeau (France, S&D), Robert Hodgson (Euronews). Joint efforts of great team: Zacharia Vigneron , María del Pilar Montero López Montero López and Loredana Dumitru.
April 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 25/03 #EUDECODED explains the proposal to increase #deportation of #asylumseekers that did not get permission to stay in the #EU and the eventual "return hubs". Guests: MEPs Saskia Bricmont (Greens, Belgium), Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spain), and my collegue Jorge Liboreiro.
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 18/03 hashtag#EUDECODED about new #EU legislative proposal to reduce #coporate #reporting obligations under the Omnibus Package. Guests: Anais Berthier from ClientEarth, Levin Spiegel from Eurochambres and my collegue Greg Lory.
March 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE 11/03 -#EUDECODED about measures to reduce the millions of tonnes of #food and #textile #waste in the #EU. Guests: MEP Rasmus Nordqvist (Denmark, Greens) and my colleague Robert Hodgson.
March 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🎬 ON EURONEWS AIR/WEBSITE TONIGHT - #EUDECODED about #NOISE #POLLUTION, that has a significant impact on Europeans #health. Guests: MEP Agius Peter (Malta, EPP) and my colleague Robert Hodgson. Team: Zacharia Vigneron, María del Pilar Montero López Montero and Loredana Dumitru.
February 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🎬 From 21Jan EP12- DEFENCE BUDGET on #EUDECODED. The #EU wants to bolster #defence and on paper has created its first defence #industrial strategy, but it will cost hundreds of billions of #euros to implement. Guests: MEP Tobias Cremer and my colleague Jack Schickler.
January 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🎬 From 14 January EP11- ONLINE CHILD SEX ABUSE on #EUDECODED. These #crimes are growing and although the #EU is revising the rules in an attempt to fight them, progress has been slow and there are conflits regarding data #privacy rights. Guests: ECPAT International and Internet Society.
January 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM