Bárbara Matias

international and European integration issues

Bárbara Matias is a Non-resident / Affiliated Research Fellow at the Group for Legal and Political Studies. Her research focus includes rule of law, international and European integration issues, primarily the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue and the EU enlargement strategy.

Bárbara was a Fulbright graduate scholar at Columbia University in New York, USA. There she completed her MA in Human Rights Studies and was invited to be an undergraduate lecturer. Her academic background is International Relations and Political Science, with a concentration in migration, forced displacement and European affairs. She has served as keynote speaker for the High Commissioner for Migration in Portugal.

Bárbara has previously interned at the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division of NATO, in Brussels, Belgium, where she integrated teams focused on defense capacity-building of partner nations from Southeast Europe and the Caucasus, and at the Operations Unit of Eurojust, in The Hague, The Netherlands, being involved reporting on operational coordination of illegal immigration and trafficking of human beings cases. Her international background also includes work at the Portuguese diplomatic missions in Austria and Sweden.

Involved in the following publications:

April 30, 2018

Policy Notes

Bárbara Matias

The EU’s impartiality going into the final phase of the Dialogue between Serbia and Koso ...

The Prishtina-Belgrade Dialogue in the Context of the New EU Enlargement Strategy

Linking the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue to the EU Enlargement Strategy: which accession prospec ...

What the Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU meant for the Western Balkans

The Franco-German European reform proposal’s impact on EU enlargement

The Functional Review of the Kosovar Justice system: an overview of the process so far

Visa exemption for Kosovo: how we got here and what’s to come

Timing and the Dialogue: Reconsidering the urgency of a final agreement

The Outcome of the European Elections from the Angle of Kosovo and the Western Balkans Enl ...

An Analysis of the Recent Developments in the Kosovo Serbia Dialogue: A perspective from B ...

What to make of the recent Grenell-facilitated agreements between Kosovo and Serbia

Breaking Down Hoti’s New Government: Formation and the 2020-2023 Plan

How Western Balkans growth prospects have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and recover ...

Electoral Reform in Kosovo: A comparative study

Reviewing Kurti’s New Government Plan: What is realistic, what is implausible and wh ...

Evaluating Kosovo’s Decision to Refuse the Gas Pipeline Project: Geostrategic losses and ...

Is EU Integration still an option for Kosovo? Comparing accession negotiations, visa liber ...

Kosovo’s Agreement with Partnership for Peace: What needs to be done and how?

Outcome of the 2022 EU-Western Balkans Summit: The Last Straw?

Composition of Central Election Commission in Kosovo in the Perspective of International a ...

Soft vs. Hard Power: The EU’s Lacking Mandate from the Eastern Europe’s Fast-Tracked M ...

Russia’s Increasing Exploitation of Fragile Peace: from northern Kosovo region to global ...

Berlin Process Success: Situating the New Policy and Legal Agreements

How Kosovo is Positioned in Geoeconomics as the New Global Paradigm of Power Politics – ...