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Amanda Coakley is an award-winning journalist with a focus on central and eastern Europe, and a Europe's Futures fellow at the IWM in Vienna. She is a regular contributor to TIME Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Irish Times, and The Independent.

She started her career at CNN International in London and later, Channel 4 News. Her work on the coronavirus pandemic with the programme was awarded ‘Coronavirus Journalism Excellence’ by Press Gazette in July 2020.

Her reporting has earned her the Piazza…

Amanda Coakley’s Journalist Portfolio

Inside the Fight To Preserve the Belarusian Language

Inside the Fight To Preserve the Belarusian Language

Activists see the language as an act of resistance to strongman Aljaksandar Łukašenka and his Russian backers.

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Poet Serhiy Zhadan on Fighting for Ukrainian Culture

Poet Serhiy Zhadan on Fighting for Ukrainian Culture

Zhadan's work has long given voice to life in the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine. Now he's trying to help people …

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Hungary's Opposition Smells Blood in the Water

Hungary's Opposition Smells Blood in the Water

After three straight electoral victories by Viktor Orban, an unlikely coalition senses a chance to halt the c…

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Nagorno-Karabakh: 'We will keep our borders and fight with our heart'

Nagorno-Karabakh: 'We will keep our borders and fight with our heart'

Conscripts and volunteers huddle in trenches in a conflict far from frozen

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For Eastern Europe, NATO’s New Security Bargain Is No Bargain at All

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By Amanda Coakley
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When the leaders of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden met in Gdansk on June 25, it put the spotlight on the contribution the Baltic and Eastern European states now make to European security. These states are spending more on defense, coordinating their security policies more closely and preparing seriously for long-term confrontation with Russia.
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Hungary’s Magyar Must Act Fast to Dismantle Orban’s Illiberal Regime

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By Amanda Coakley
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When Peter Magyar’s Tisza party won 141 of 199 seats in Hungary’s parliamentary elections on April 12, it was not just a defeat for outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The outcome, securing Tisza a two-thirds supermajority on a record 80 percent turnout, was a popular verdict on the system Orban built over his preceding 16 years in power.
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Ahead of Hungary’s Elections, Orban Has a New Look: Vulnerable

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By Amanda Coakley
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Over his 16 consecutive years in power, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has adopted many guises. During the 2015 migration crisis, he cast himself as Europe’s defender, sealing Hungary’s borders and describing migrants as a “poison.” He later repositioned himself as the moral steward of the Hungarian nation, advancing a strain of conservative Christianity to justify anti-LGBTQ+ policies and restrictions on women’s rights, in a sharp divergence from the European Union’s rules and norms.
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