Lithuania’s first and last king Mindaugas was crowned approximately thirty years after the end of Estonia’s ancient struggle for freedom, in 1253. This day, July 6, is celebrated as the day of Lithuania’s statehood since the 1990s. The migrants...

While all Health Board officials initially knew that their alarm system should report temperature changes in the cold storage facility all the time, a super-administrator had reset the warning to only off-duty hours in 2019 without their knowledge. W...

Labor shortage is on the rise in Estonia and an increasing number of sectors have trouble finding workforce, the Unemployment Insurance Fund labor barometer and the CVKeskus labor market survey showed yesterday. The corona crisis support measures hav...

The migration pressure from Belarus, which has been increasingly affecting Lithuania in recent days, provokes the question about Estonia’s opportunities to help Lithuania cope with the increasingly critical situation. And should Estonia also increa...

Forget about suitcases with double bottoms, swallowing of capsules with narcotics or packs taped to the body – drug trafficking is much less complicated these days. A few clicks with the computer mouse and a courier will bring a package containing ...

Minister of Justice Maris Lauri has ordered her staff to complete the bill of border crossing regulations by Thursday. The toughest entry rules will concern Russia, hit hard by the Indian (Delta) strain. According to the upcoming bill, border crossin...

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...