Helena Truchlá is currently based in Germany, where she works as an analyst on European issues with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. In the past, she led the team of the project "Czech interests in the EU" at the STEM research institute and wrote for the Czech and German media for several years. At Aktuálně.cz, she was the editor of the foreign section, author of the podcast Central European and contributor to the project Poor Czech Republic 2021, a series of reports, interviews and analyses focused on social inequality and hidden poverty.