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Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Estonia’s fiscal house in order as parliament approves 2010 ‘euro’ budge…

In addition, the vast public sector and structural reforms of earlier years have brought in higher cost-efficiencies, though there is still room for improvement. Estonia must preserve its adva...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Opposition falls in line to agree on common goal…

The 2010 budget passed with 55 votes in favor and 39 votes against in the 101-member house, showing an 89.7 billion kroons (5.7 billion euro) package. “Eurozone accession has been a lon...

Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Salaries and expenses for high government officials reined in…

Salaries of other high-ranking officials will no longer be based on the salary of the president. The government is also going to cancel compensation for all extra charges and benefits from hi...

Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Calm prevails but batsman still on the loose…

One of the women was seriously injured in the seemingly random attack. Police, who are looking for the attacker, say the suspected criminal is a young man aged 20-25 years, is from 180-185 cm t...

Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Tallinn’s Christmas market gets holiday cheer started…

This will be the 8th year the Christmas Market is being held in the square. As we reported last week, the on-line edition of the British daily The Times recently compiled a ‘top 20&rsq...



ESTONIA is a state in Northern Europe which has borders with Latvia and Russia. Across the Baltic Sea lies Finland in the north and Sweden in the west. Estonia covers around 45 thousands square kilometers. The Estonians are part of Finnic people. The only official language in Estonia is Estonian, which has too much in common with Finnish language. Estonia as a state is a parliamentary republic with internal division of 15 regions. The largest city and the capital as well is Tallinn. Estonia is one of the least-populous countries of the European Union - its population is less than 1.5 million. Various international ogranizations highly ranked Estonia regarding press, democracy and political freedom.