Martin Ehl
Chief International Editor of the Czech economic daily Hospodářské noviny and a syndicated columnist writing on Central European issues.
Fall 2020
What “Rule of Law” Means Since the EU Budget Summit
On the surface, the EU budget summit smoothed over the friction between Brussels and the bloc’s problem children. Deeper down, the rift may be growing.
Vienna News
Croatian Holiday – Deference and Denial on Dalmatian Summer Beaches
On the eve of new travel warnings, locals tried to follow the rules while not annoying the tourists – producing perplexing compromises and catastrophic carelessness.
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 growth a...
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...
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 Europe
On 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 the I...
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 innovation
There 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 away
I 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 future
A qua...
International
International: The New European Divide
How the refugees bring the danger of new walls between East and West
The wave of refugees flooding in across the borders has caught the European...