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) | 11/24/2009
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) | 11/13/2009
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...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will be in Estonia for an official visit on Thursday, 8 October. This will be Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s first visit to Estonia as the NATO secretary general. The NATO secretary general has meetings planned with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, Defence Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, and Commander of the...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Juhan Tere Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip explained in the Riigikogu on Monday that the state has not reacted to the growing joblessness by creating “social” jobs since these just violate market competition, Eesti Päevaleht Online/LETA reports. Ansip said that neither the European Commission nor other international institutions support creating the so-called social jobs, i.e....
Baltic Economy Watch (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Well, today is the 30 of June, and still no news from the IMF on releasing the next tranche of the Latvian loan. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why (via Ott Umelas at Bloomberg ). Estonia’s fiscal deficit under European Union terms more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, indicating the Baltic country may not be able to adopt the euro in January 2011. The deficit, including...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Estonia is heading full speed towards the eurozone to avoid facing the same devaluation danger as neighbouring Latvia, says Andrus Ansip, the country's premier
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
TALLINN - Estonia largest opposition party, the Center Party, took the lead in Sunday's elections, winning two seats to the European Parliament in the tiny EU Baltic state of 1.3 million, according to the Estonian elections commission. The Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip took one of the six seats commanded by Estonia in the EU parliament. The former Soviet republic joined the EU in 2004....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Tallinn - Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip named new members of his cabinet Wednesday as he seeks to shore up his minority government. Ansip appointed Jurgen Ligi from his own Reform party as the new Finance Minister, while the Interior Ministry ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Tallinn - Estonia was facing an uncertain political future Tuesday after talks aimed at forming a new coalition government broke down, and Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said he would be forced to lead a minority administration. Ansip had attempted to w...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Tallinn - The Baltic state of Estonia was facing an uncertain political future Tuesday after talks aimed at forming a new coalition government broke down without agreement Monday night. Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's had attempted to woo an opposition...
BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Mr. Christoph Rosenberg, visited Tallinn May 12-18 to review with the authorities the economic situation and assess policies. The mission met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, Finance Minister Ivari Padar, Bank of Estonia Governor Andres Lipstok, other senior officials and market participants. At the end of the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
Tallinn - The Prime Minister of Estonia, Andrus Ansip, resisted mounting pressure for his resignation Friday, a day after his three-party coalition government collapsed. On Thursday Ansip announced that he was ejecting three ministers from the Social...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
Tallinn - The split in Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's government emerged into the open Thursday, with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves giving Andrus permission to re-form his coalition government. The government has been on the verge of collaps...
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