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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Urmas Paet confirmed the invitation of Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip to the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan to visit Tallinn.
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Stenbock House - Today, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and Elle Kull, President of the Estonian National Committee of UNICEF, presented to Rakvere the title of Child and Youth Friendly City. The city earned the title by joining the UNICEF movement, which values, in addition to security and a happy environment for children, urban citizens awareness of children´rights. In 2008 and 2009, the UNICEF...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The Estonian Parliament made a decision to lower the boundary of tax-free purchases until the end of 2011. While the previous boundary was 2000 EEK, now tourists can make tax-free purchases beginning from 600 EEK (€38). Due to this change in legislation, Estonia has become a better shopping destination for tourists than Finland, Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania, where the lower boundary of tax-free...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Russia and Estonia agreed on Wednesday to strengthen joint efforts to fight drug trafficking.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Tallinn - Fears grew about the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu, in the Baltic states Tuesday after Estonian health officials confirmed their first fatality as a result of the illness. A statement released by the Estonian m...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Estonia will most probably join the eurozone already in 2011, at least three years ahead of Latvia and Lithuania, however, this will have a positive effect on the entire Baltic region economy, believes the European Commission's Vice President and European Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud Siim Kallas. In an interview with LETA Video, Kallas said that Estonia would most likely...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The biggest problem facing the Reform Party today is that its leader, prime minister Andrus Ansip, lacks a tax ideology. Äripäev writes in its editorial that the tax ideology of the Reform Party and its prime minister Andrus Ansip is bankrupt. If a prime minister is without a strong foundation, it will be soon that the whole government building may start crumbling. Reform Party's tax policy...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
BRUSSELS - Estonia has made progress toward joining the euro zone, but a fuller assessment of its membership prospects won't be made until next May, a European Commission spokeswoman said Monday. Earlier Monday, an Austrian magazine published an interview with European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia, who said: "If all goes well, we can give the green light for the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Tallinn - Estonia's hopes of becoming the next European Union member state to adopt the euro as its national currency received a slight boost Monday with comments from EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia suggesting the Balti...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces Ants Laaneots said if Russia buys a French Mistral amphibious assault ship, measures should be taken to ensure Estonian national security.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces Ants Laaneots said if Russia buys a French Mistral amphibious assault ship, measures should be taken to ensure Estonian national security.
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Estonia is set to become the next euro member as years of fiscal prudence help the former communist state recover faster than neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, a World Bank economist said. “It’s doing everything it can to keep the deficit within 3 percent of GDP this year,” Thomas Laursen, the World Bank’s country manager for Poland and the Baltics, said in an interview in Warsaw....
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
1989 brought a domino effect of revolutions. Timothy Garton Ash remarked: �In Poland the transition [from communism to democracy] lasted ten years, in Hungary ten months, in Czechoslovakia ten days.� Those ten eventful days fell between November 17th and 27th, 1989. After the failure of the Prague Spring, many Czechoslovaks rightfully held doubts about the possibility of revolution, but...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Tallinn - The number of unemployed in Estonia in the third quarter of 2009 reached its highest level since the country regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, according to official data released Friday. Statistics Estonia said the unempl...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Tallinn - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the incumbent president of the small Baltic state of Estonia, became the latest name Thursday to enter the race for the job of European Council President. The Baltic News Service reported that Prime Minister Andrus Ansip told a news conference in Tallinn: 'I put forward... the name of Toomas Hendrik Ilves as a candidate fit for the position of both president and high...
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satraffic | 01/26/2009
Kass grew up in the Estonian city of Paide. When she was a little girl, she lived in a cramped apartment in Sika village with her mother, who worked on a farm. At the age of fourteen, she was ‘discovered’ in a Tallinn supermarket by an Italian mode...
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