Estonia, seeing the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, has offered accepting up to ten refugees from the troubled South Asian country. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas stated on Tuesday, August 17, that the country is willing to contribute to solving the growing crisis after Estonia’s involvement in the US-led WarContinue Reading
The Lithuanian Migration Department expects to process all asylum applications from migrants who have entered the country from Belarus so far within three months, the authority’s director said on Tuesday. “Over 200 asylum applications have been processed to date, and we are planning to process all applications that have beenContinue Reading
The Taliban Islamic movement announced its victory over the Afghan government in the presidential palace on Sunday evening. The chaos and fear in the country keep increasing every moment. Estonia’s ambassador to NATO Jüri Luik believes that the new reality will become the greatest shock for the younger generation. «TheContinue Reading
Having illegally crossed the Lithuanian-Belarusian border in June, the Iraqi citizen agreed to return to his country of origin under Lithuania’s news voluntary return scheme. He had a ticket bought for him and also received 300 euros. The man flew out of Vilnius to Istanbul. Another around ten citizens ofContinue Reading
Member of Parliament Ano Turtiainen, who was ejected from the Finns Party earlier this year, gathered enough signatures needed to launch a new political party in a single day. Turtiainen’s planned new party, Valta kuuluu kansalle (VKK), or “Power Belongs to the People” announced that it had crossed the 5,000-signatureContinue Reading
As Finland started rolling out coronavirus vaccinations to all 12- to 15-year-olds from Monday this week, a parallel campaign of anti-vaccination disinformation began targeting the age group through social media channels, including the popular photo sharing site Instagram. Many of the posts reference the Pelastetaan lapset (roughly translated as ‘Let’sContinue Reading
To ensure students are able to return to schools normally for the 2021/2022 academic year, they will need to have a valid Covid-19 vaccination/recovery certificate or negative Covid-19 test result, as decided by Latvian Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday, 10 August. That’s Latvia. Just remind you that in Lithuania protestersContinue Reading
People are holding state and municipal flags and posters saying “STOP Discrimination”, F**k National Certificate”, and also chanted “Disgrace, disgrace”. “We need to protect the state, the Constitution, to defend our rights, a free choice, for our rights not to be restricted, irrespective of whether a person wants to getContinue Reading
More and more countries are opting for third vaccine shots. People belonging to risk groups will get their third vaccine shots in Germany and France in September. Israel recently announced as much. Estonia sees no need for third jabs yet. Israel said in late July that it will immunize peopleContinue Reading
Petteri Taalas, the Finn who leads the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), said on Monday that the world is on course to miss crucial climate change targets after the publication of the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global warming is a rather significant problem inContinue Reading