Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus said that confirmation from the Competition Authority means it is virtually certain Estonia will pay part of the electricity transmission fee for all consumers and offer less fortunate households additional benefits in the total volume of €100 million to offset record electricity prices. The CompetitionContinue Reading
Compensating network providers for lower-income customer discounts put in place amid soaring energy prices will cost around €75 million for the half-year in which it is planned, Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Taavi Aas (Center) says. Aas said Thursday that: “If we go down the road of lowering networkContinue Reading
City management and urban development were discussed by Tartu’s mayoral candidates at a debate on Wednesday night. The debate was hosted by ETV and featured candidates from Reform, Center, the Social Democrats (SDE), Isamaa, Eesti 200, EKRE and the Greens. Tartu is Estonia’s second biggest city with a population ofContinue Reading
President Alar Karis’ first meeting with two heads of state has been canceled after Latvian President Egils Levits tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, while Finnish President Sauli Niinistö is isolating. Latvian national broadcaster LSM reported Levits gave a positive antigen rapid test last night after returning from Sweden. HeContinue Reading
Autumn holiday travellers should think twice before booking a trip to the Baltics, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) warns. Case numbers have been rising in the area exponentially; the incidence rate in Estonia alone has shot up to 1,200 cases a day. Viking Line’s communications director JohannaContinue Reading
A major political storm is brewing in Lithuania concerning a barbed wire tender from Estonia. Critics say that the Lithuanian government wasted taxpayer money when it procured barbed wire from Estonia for double the market price. The Estonian side considers the matter to be a political struggle inside Lithuania. EstoniaContinue Reading
In his first speech to the Riigikogu, President Alar Karis said that an intelligent people had been one of his ideals before he became president. “I also specified that the measure of intelligence and scholarship is not the number of degrees issued, but the ability to utilize knowledge and getContinue Reading
Estonia has the lowest property takes in the European Union, a short report by the Riigikogu Foresight Center reveals. Hiking property tax rates to the European average would yield over €500 million for the state budget in Estonia. “The Estonian tax system is largely based on labor and consumption taxes,Continue Reading
Support for the current Reform/Center coalition has fallen since the beginning of the year, when the pairing entered office, according to a recent survey. Around half of respondents expressed criticism both of the government’s performance, and of that of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform). The survey, conducted by pollsters NorstatContinue Reading
The Finnish Coast Guard has launched seven criminal investigations after migrants who crossed the Belarusian border were found in Finland. Some had arrived on ferries from Estonia. Newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reported on Thursday that some of the migrants had arrived on passenger ferries and were hidden in the trunks of cars. TheContinue Reading