Minister of Public Administration Jaak Aab (Center) is looking for a faster way to make European support available to Ida-Viru County.

Minister of Education and Research Liina Kersna (Reform) is looking at a crestfallen education landscape.

Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik (Center Party) will have to solve the coronavirus crisis, protect public health and stay on top of labor market policy.

Postimees TV series “Minister in the Crossfire” interviews all ministers in Kaja Kallas’ cabinet. Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet is next.

New Postimees TV series “Minister in the Crossfire” will interview all ministers in Kaja Kallas’ cabinet. Minister of Social Protection Signe Riisalo gets the ball rolling.

Lithuania’s new Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte does not deny having close ties to the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) in whose name she has been an MP, run for president and is now head of government. At the same time, ...

The political leader of the people of Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visited Estonia on January 21-23. She met with the president, prime minister and leading Riigikogu politicians and attended an extraordinary virtual session of the UN Security Cou...

The Reform Party and Center Party presented their ministerial candidates for Kaja Kallas’ government on Sunday morning. Seven of the new government’s 15 ministers are women and Estonia’s most gender balanced cabinet is no coincidence, political...

Even though the Reform Party has refrained from participating in the practice of distributing direct regional investments or so-called Riigikogu protection money for years, sides to the incoming coalition did not manage to agree on abolishing the ins...

The Reform Party and Center Party failed to find consensus regarding citizenship topics on Wednesday and decided to continue without changes. Amendments to the Aliens Act will not be taken forward, while the recently controversial concept of marriage...

The Reform Party and Center Party agreed to lower felling volumes in state-owned forests and stop investing in new fossil fuel projects during coalition talks on Tuesday. The sides also agreed on an amendment to allow minors to seek psychiatric help ...

Four members of the Riigikogu Isamaa faction and three Riigikogu officials were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Monday and have around 20 close contacts between them.

The Reform Party and Center Party decided to gradually move toward a universal Estonian school system during the fifth day of coalition talks. The parties did not agree on a timeline or any concrete steps and simply said an activity plan would be put...

Former PM Taavi Rõivas left politics and joined Väino Kaldoja’s self-driving cars project toward the end of last year. Whether Rõivas was given a stake in the venture remains unclear nor is he forthcoming about his investments.

Members of the Estonian government on Thursday approved in principle the continuation of restrictions in Ida-Viru and Harju counties until February 1.

Estonia’s candidate for prime minister Kaja Kallas (Reform Party) said at a press conference on Thursday that Reform and Center will try to move quickly as the country find itself in the middle of COVID-19 and economic crises. It has been suggested...

Even though Prime Minister Jüri Ratas’ resignation was initially followed by rumors of the recent coalition moving forward  together, it became clear by noon on Wednesday that the Center Party does not wish to stay in the same coalition with the ...

After a meeting of the board of the Center Party that lasted many hours, Jüri Ratas announced his resignation as the prime minister of Estonia in the early hours of Wednesday, public broadcaster ERR and Postimees reported.

Suspicions brought by the Office of the Prosecutor General suggest businessman Hillar Teder has tried to secure favorable decisions for his Porto Franco real estate development in both Tallinn and on the state level. Five individuals and the Center P...

President Kersti Kaljulaid turned to Riigikogu parties on Monday and proposed tying the planned marriage referendum to a vote of confidence in the Riigikogu. This would mean holding extraordinary parliamentary elections should the people say “no”...

The Riigikogu Constitutional Committee on Sunday decided to send the marriage referendum bill to its second reading with four individual motions to amend pertaining to marriage and a so-called obstruction cluster made up of the opposition’s remaini...

A grand funeral was held in Põlva in January of 1981. Despite extraordinarily cold weather, the cemetery was full of people. Many looked on from afar. The funeral was for Jr. Sgt. Enn Valli who was not yet 22 when he died as the first Estonian Sovie...

Minister of Defense Jüri Luik (Isamaa) says that isolating defense from political currents is one of the trump cards of national security in Estonia. The minister also says that the threat of NATO disbanding has disappeared and that the new year wil...

Postimees’ Person of the Year 2020 Dr. Arkadi Popov said on the “Otse Postimehest” webcast on Tuesday that the Health Board’s crisis center had an activity plan in place for the second wave of COVID-19. “There need to be plans on every leve...

Director of the Health Board Üllar Lanno would like to realign the agency to be able to handle any situation, also during crisis time. Secondly, he deems it important to renew the board’s databases and get an overview of the situation of ambulance...