Even though the stars are not aligned for the Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) and Henn Põlluaas – the opposition party lacks the votes needed to set up his candidacy in the Riigikogu – the national conservatives delivered the symbolic and c...

Even though surveys of the wreck of passenger ferry MS Estonia are set to begin next week, head of the international preliminary assessment committee Rene Arikas received authorization to use millions allocated for the investigation just two weeks ag...

Last week saw around 100,000 doses of Covid vaccine and other medicines perish after a temperature surge in a Health Board warehouse. Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik (Center Party) and Director of the Health Board Üllar Lanno had no answers ...

If the Center Party launched its fall local elections campaign with a tax hike plan, one of the leaders of the Reform Party, Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus proposes the opposite.

The Estonian Defense Forces will reorganize the process of issuing regular uniforms to officers and non-commissioned officers, hoping to save half a million euros a year. Uniform elements are currently stockpiled and issued to EDF members as necessar...

Germany and France proposed considering a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, immediately before the EU Brussels summit. Putin met with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva last week. Estonia and other member states remain oppos...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that data internet and mobile communications services providers are obligated to collect and store cannot be used in criminal proceedings as Estonia’s comprehensive data storage regulation is contrary to EU law. Th...

The Center Party will meet the fall local government council elections with the slogan “The Right Move!” (Õige Käik!) and promises additional benefits for the elderly and abolition of kindergarten place fees. The party council met on Saturday.

The U.S. Special Forces forward operations base in Estonia also serves Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, Maj. Gen. David H. Tabor, Commander Commanding General, Special Operations Command-Europe, says in an interview.

The Riigikogu on Wednesday started by voting on the motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) by the opposition Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) and Isamaa. The motion failed as 36 MPs voted for and 55 against.

Even though Estonia’s official position was not to allow cross-usage of vaccines as recently as last week, the national immunoprophylactic expert committee has decided to allow combining vaccines in cases where the first dose has caused severe side...

Isamaa chairman candidate Lavly Perling had to have been aware of proceedings involving the Center Party when she went into politics, Prosecutor General Andres Parmas said on the “Otse Postimehest” webcast on Tuesday.

Obstruction efforts by the Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) have seen the work of the Riigikogu hindered over ABIS – the automatic biometric identification system database that comprises people’s fingerprints and facial images. More than a fe...

West Balkan countries are not expecting a lower bar for EU accession, while Brussels should see expansion in the region as a geopolitical priority that would contribute to stability, peace and development for the entire continent, President of Kosovo...

Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Märt Volmer said on the “Otse Postimehest” webcast that while the ministry has been active in trying to solve the Estonia-Finland labor migration issue, efforts have remained too polite...

The vote of no confidence against Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet (Reform) failed with 57 votes against on Tuesday. The opposition admitted that the vote was aimed at putting pressure on the government in protest of its €60.4 million austerity pla...

Eight top Estonian jurists, including Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Villu Kõve, Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise, Chairman of the Estonian Bar Association Jaanus Tehver and Prosecutor General Andres Parmas, have published a joint address sayi...

Opposition politicians and experts say Centrist candidate would not stand a chance at fall presidential elections.

The pace of inoculating people with the first shot of vaccine has stabilized over the past month – differences in daily vaccination figures are minute. Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik (Center) said that the pace remains stable because of tw...

The power struggle in the opposition Isamaa party is nearing its culmination. Both current chairman Helir-Valdor Seeder and former Prosecutor General Lavly Perling said on Wednesday that they plan to run for chairman.

The Ministry of Defense has decided to cut costs in its administrative area over the next four years and will be laying off 270 people. Even though investments will not be cut directly, development of the armed forces will be impacted nonetheless.

Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is weaker than ever after organizing an international act of terror and its fake Sochi visit, says Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and urges Estonians to write to political prisoners in Belarus.

Some in Europe are sometimes too impressed by the propaganda of autocratic countries, Martin Selmayr, head of the EU Commission Representation in Vienna, says when commenting on countries’ plans to procure Chinese or Russian vaccines.

We talked about Russia directly and at length, President Kersti Kaljulaid said when commenting on her Austria visit.

Estonia is banning Belarusian national airline Belavia from flying to its airports.