The Center for Defense Investment (RKK) has announced a €693-million long-term military vehicles and plant procurement, the largest military procurement made by Estonia to date. The vehicles will be mostly logistical in nature, including cranes, loaders and aircraft loaders. Toomas Kalda, RKK sector manager, said Monday that: “This procurement willContinue Reading
Finns Party chair Riikka Purra says rising prices are significantly weakening the purchasing power of low and middle-income earners. The opposition Finns Party has announced it will file an interpellation, the first move towards a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP), over theContinue Reading
The consumer price index rose by 11.3 percent on year to January 2022, state agency Statistics Estonia reports. The month-on-month change between December 2021 and January 2022 stood at -0.1 percent, the agency adds. Statistics Estonia leading analyst Viktoria Trasanov said that government measures curbing energy prices, and an overallContinue Reading
Stockholm: Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and members of the Nordic country’s indigenous Sami community on Saturday protested against a possible iron ore mine in northern Sweden. The government is next month to decide whether to greenlight the controversial project led by UK firm Beowulf, which has promised to createContinue Reading
Estonia and Latvia could build a joint wind farm in the Baltic Sea, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says, adding that such a project would increase the Baltic states’ energy security. “We spoke about the need to develop a joint wind farm with Latvia in the Baltic Sea as thatContinue Reading