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  The government of Estonia authorized Minister of Education and Research Mailis Reps to establish a foundation Euroopa Kool that would manage the activity of the Tallinn European School from the Innove foundation. The foundation will focus on the strategic development of the school directed towards the international community and managing of change therein. Tallinn […]

    Juri Ratas encouraged more than a dozen Norwegian companies and representatives of entrepreneurship organizations to invest in Estonia. Estonia as a country with a strong banking sector, budget policy and a simple business environment that is worthy of investments. The prime minister said that Estonia shares common values with the Nordic states and […]

  This campaign launched by Enterprise Estonia and aims to bring additionally 20,000 tourists to Estonia. As part of the #EstonianWay campaign, 100 well-known foreigners, such as athletes, musicians, businesspeople and social media stars will present Estonia to their compatriots. The budget of the campaign for the two-year period is 650,000 euros, which includes money […]

  Amendments to the Family Benefits Act will be put to a final vote at the Estonian parliament on Wednesday. Parents will be granted the opportunity to use their parental leave at the same time and take care of their baby together. The new system would also permit for parents to take turns staying at […]

  Defense Minister Juri Luik said that Estonia is ready to give its cyber capabilities to NATO if necessary. “When developing different capabilities, the member states must be ready to share them also with NATO, and the same principle applies to attack capabilities,” Luik said. Estonia is developing its cyber command considering the interests and […]

  The county town of Valga on the Estonian-Latvian border held an entrepreneurship seminar on Monday. The Prime Minister Juri Ratas emphasized that entrepreneurship is the engine of the state’s development and the government must support getting started with business as well as the growth of existing companies. He said that the development of entrepreneurship […]

  Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas met on Sunday with members of the Estonian community of New York. Currently Estonia supports Estonians living abroad through a compatriots’ scholarship program that offers support for maintaining fluency in Estonian, preserving Estonian national culture and identity, and the possibility of returning to Estonia. The prime minister emphasized that […]

  The new Estonian ambassador to the United States, Jonatan Vseviov, will present his credentials to President Donald Trump on Monday. Jonatan Vseviov was the secretary general of the Ministry of Defense. President Kersti Kaljulaid named him President Kersti Kaljulaid named Vseviov as Estonia’s new ambassador to the United States at the beginning of August. […]

  The city council of Estonian resort city Parnu has supported the city government’s proposal to vie for the status of European Capital of Culture 2024 together with Tartu and Viljandi. All three cities want to have an interesting, creative and environmentally aware living environment, attach value to local culture and wish to diversify it. […]

  Estonia has become the seventh foreign county in terms of the number of visits by Russian tourists. Russian citizens made 858,000 trips to Estonia in the first half of the year. According to the Rosstat, Russian citizens made 2.28 million trips to Turkey, 1.75 million trips to the separating Georgian region of Abkhazia and […]