Ukraine will start receiving Leopard 1 tanks from Denmark before summer. Denmark’s Acting Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said this at a briefing with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov at the Ukraine – Odesa Media Center on Monday, April 10, according to Ukrinform. “We will start delivering Leopard 1 tanksContinue Reading
Sweden’s hopes of quickly following Finland into NATO membership have alighted on Turkey’s presidential election in May, in which recent polls show President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year rule is in danger of ending. “The signals that Sweden has gotten from the opposition have been very good,” Paul Levin, director ofContinue Reading
The “tax hump” in Estonia is a throwback, Incoming Minister of Foreign Affairs Margus Tsahkna (Eesti 200) says. Tsahkna says that while the phenomenon, also known as bracket-creep, arose during his time in office when he was leader of Isamaa (then known as IRL), it is now outdated, hence theContinue Reading
The government will continue to privatize state-owned, but non-strategically important, companies. A list specifying which firms this will concern is to be completed by the end of the year. Estonia currently has 27 state-owned and part state-owned companies, Thursday’s “Aktuaalne kaamera” (AK) reported. Enefit Green, a subsidiary of energy generatorContinue Reading
In an address to MPs at the formal opening of Finnish Parliament on Thursday, President Sauli Niinistö said the job of an MP is not an individual endeavour, but rather part of a joint effort on behalf of the entire nation. “It requires a lot from you: Capability to cooperateContinue Reading