Estonia

Finland and Estonia have reported that gas pipeline Balticconnector connecting the two countries was shut down on Sunday due to a gas leak and it is believed that damage was caused deliberately by external activity. Following these reports, Lithuania’s Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivys stated that ...

Impact Day will bring more than 150 well-known and inspiring speakers to Tallinn, Põhjala factory this Thursday and Friday. Approximately 2,000 people will take part in the festival.

National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas on Thursday met with Estonian Ambassador to Lithuania Kaimo Kuusk to discuss bilateral cooperation and efforts to support Ukraine, the ministry said.

Estonian President Alar Karis has called on the United Nations to make a global environmental initiative which was born in Estonia 15 years ago an official international day, the ERR public broadcaster reports.

Owners of vehicles bearing Russian license plates must either remove their vehicles from Estonia or re-register them here, within a six-month period. No new legislation has been put in place to accomplish this; Minister of Justice Kalle Laanet (Reform) simply recapped current Estonian law, reports E...

According to Statistics Estonia, 93.2% of households in Estonia have an internet connection at home. The number of households with an internet connection has increased by 13,000 compared with the previous year, when there were 533,300 such households. There are also more users of e-commerce, stated ...

On 28 August-3 September, compared with the previous week, wholesale electricity price in Lithuania and Latvia fell by 22% to EUR 111.82/MWh, while it fell by 29% to EUR 109.06/MWh in Estonia.

An online petition opposed to a planned nationwide tax on car ownership garnered over 65,000 signatures at its closure, a record number for the online environment where such petitions are filed, Estonia's public broadcaster ERR reports.

The average monthly gross wages and salaries in Estonia grew by 12.4% to EUR 1,873 in the second quarter of 2023, from a year before, reports Statistics Estonia. The median wage was EUR 1,524 in the second quarter this year.

According to Estonian Minister of Climate Kristen Michal, the proposed car tax does not meet environmental objectives. In order to do so, Michael believes the tax needs to give significantly more consideration to the environmental impact of cars, including CO2 emission levels, and pay less attention...

The number of Russian and Belarusian citizens seeking international protection in Estonia has soared since the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine last February, according to the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA). The number of Ukrainians who have applied for asylum ...

At the initiative of Estonia’s Minister of Justice Kalle Laanet (Reform), though not via a draft prepared by Ministry of Justice staff, the right to vote in local elections in Estonia would be stripped from citizens of a foreign country recognised as an aggressor state, reports public broadcaster ER...

A petition opposing plans to lay down a car tax in Estonia has collected over 50,000 signatures in the public participation Rahvaalgatus portal by Wednesday, reports public broadcaster ERR.

A flash estimate put Estonia’s current account at EUR 20 million in deficit in June 2023, up from a EUR 92 million deficit in June 2022, with both exports and imports of goods falling by 10 percent but service exports up 3 percent and imports 2 percent on year, bumping the services account surplus b...

In 2025, Swedbank in Estonia will move its headquarters from the current premises on Tallinn’s Liivalaia tänav to a 28-story building in the Arter quarter, the ERR public broadcaster reports.

The volume of coins in circulation in Estonia grew by 55 percent between the first and second quarter (Q2 2023) of this year, the ERR public broadcaster reports, citing a statement from the Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank).

Estonia could help to export Ukrainian grain, but this is unlikely due to high delivery costs, the ERR public broadcaster reports.

The Estonian flag made its first ever voyage into space recently, after being blasted off into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket, the public broadcaster ERR reports.

On 12 July, the Management Board of Ignitis Group agreed to the investment decision made by the Group’s subsidiary Ignitis. Ignitis and its subsidiaries in Latvia and Estonia are to invest up to EUR 115 million over 3–5 years to develop an electric vehicle (EV) charging network in the Baltics. The m...