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Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Ilves secures vote to continue in post…

He ran against the so-called “protest candidate,” Indrek Tarand, who recently achieved a landslide victory in the European Parliament elections and was nominated for the presidency by ...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Election rhetoric heats up…

We do not have just small parishes, but also too big parishes that do not observe financial mechanisms,” said Ilves. Referring to the city of Tallinn, Ilves explained that at present, the State Au...

Wed, 11 May 2011, Strengthening neighborhood policy…

“Estonia and Slovenia, who are each other’s valued partners in international organizations and in bilateral cooperation projects in general, could together find options for assuring th...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Ilves enters Afghan conflict…

and ISAF leading state ambassadors in Tallinn, as in the initial version of it there was delicate health information about Estonian soldiers who were injured and killed in Afghanistan. “...

Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Come home, says Ilves…

“This isn’t some abstract call to return to the fatherland,” President Ilves explained. “It aims to extend job offers and partnership opportunities with Estonian companies ...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Ilves’ comments in Israel “irritating”…

They had just been through a brutal Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941, during which tens of thousands of citizens were executed or deported to Siberia. The Baltic people viewed the German ar...

Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Ilves says EU needs Turkey…

Now, Turkey is ready to send its representative to the NATO Co-operative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn. The Estonian head of state and the head of the Turkish government describe...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010, President Toomas Ilves speaks on the future of NATO and European Securi…

In doing so Ilves expressed frustration with a system in which key leaders “can’t talk to themselves” to resolve issues. He noted the severity of this problem, which has result...



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