Martin Ehl
Chief International Editor of the Czech economic daily Hospodářské noviny and a syndicated columnist writing on Central European issues.
Opinion
Growth and Its Discontents
Central Europe has experienced a soaring economy in the last two decades. Yet the disaffection of many shows the limits of what economic gro...
International
Empire to Republic | Anxious 8: What Will 2018 Bring Anxious Czechs?
With a rocky history behind them, Czechs never had it so good – and they secretly know, despite all the grumbling.
Czechs are a bit obsessed with yea...
Cover Stories
Siblings Reunited: How Open Borders are Reconnecting the Central Europe Family
Austria shares a rich history and culture with its Central European brothers and sisters. Now that borders have disappeared, the region is once ...
Opinion
Opinion | How Putin’s Visit to Hungary has Changed the Game in Europe
An unspectacular visit by Vladimir Putin is an important measure of the growing pressures on a united EuropeOn February 2, Vladimir Putin arrive...
Opinion
Education in Post-Communist CEE
What is the best role for government in higher education, hands-on or off the table?It might seem strange that a generation after the fall of th...
International
International: Innovation in Eastern Europe – Rupture, Risk And the Quiet Life
Shattering upheavals have left Central and Eastern Europe longing for calm, but a disruptive new generation is looking towards innovationThere h...
April 2016
Op-ed: In Brexit, We All Lose
Britain, our role model in language, constitutional law, education and business, would gradually feel farther and farther awayI want to encourag...
March 2016
Op-Ed: The Short Long Term
With Central European governments constantly changing the rules, it has become impossible for families or businesses to plan for the futureA qua...
International
International: The New European Divide
How the refugees bring the danger of new walls between East and WestThe wave of refugees flooding in across the borders has caught the European...
