Transport Administration urges caution on the roads as wildlife springs forth
In the month of May, the more active movement of wild animals in Estonia starts, meaning drivers should exercise particular caution.
In the month of May, the more active movement of wild animals in Estonia starts, meaning drivers should exercise particular caution.
Last month, Tallinn Airport served more passengers than in any previous April – 298,000. Passenger numbers were up 28 percent compared to April 2023, mainly due to the additional flight options available.
On May 8, 55 members of the Riigikogu submitted for parliamentary proceedings a draft resolution which will allow to start the preparations for adoption of nuclear energy in Estonia and the creation of a suitable legislative framework.
Ringo Ringvee, adviser on religious affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, said that the final solution to remove the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK) from the influence of the Moscow Patriarchate and, by extension, the current Russian leadership, would be to forcibly dissolve it. However, it would be preferable if they themselves severed these.
There are still a number of Soviet-era symbols and monuments in Estonia's public space. Permission to remove them, either from a local municipality or private landowner, has yet to be received. According to the head of the Narva police station, the continuing presence of such monuments and symbols, encourages some people to display banned symbols themselves on May 9.
On May 8, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Russia's chargé d'affaires over GPS signal interference.
On Tuesday, Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur (Reform) met with Dutch Minister of Defense Kajsa Ollongren in Tallinn. The ministers announced that after renovation work on the runway at Ämari Air Base is complete, the Netherlands will deploy fifth generation F-35 stealth fighters to Estonia within the scope of NATO's enhanced Air Policing mission.
The forthcoming climate law aims for the public sector to phase out fossil fuels by 2040, CO2-free electricity generation and security of supply, as well as CO2-free heat generating.
On Tuesday, Tallinn Deputy Mayor Pärtel-Peeter Pere (Reform) met with representatives of mobility company Bolt to discuss a range of issues related to public transport in the Estonian capital. Pere said that Bolt's vision for both the Tallinn bike-sharing scheme , as well as mobility reforms across Estonia, were also on the agenda.
When the more general level of the basic agreements between EU Member States was established seven or eight years ago, Estonia was aware that it may have trouble fulfilling the climate targets for forestry and land use, or LULUCF. Estonia held the Council of Europe presidency during some of the negotiations, forcing it to concede rather than defend its goals.
May 9 is a controversial day in Estonia. ERR News explains why.
Paying for damage caused by the overlogging of forests, while buying emissions quotas from other countries and allowing the sector to emit more carbon than necessary is a harebrained plan. Instead, Estonia should keep carbon locked in forests and sell emissions quotas itself, Farištamo Eller writes.
In an interview with "AK," Health Minister Riina Sikkut (SDE) said that amendments to the Competition Act, the renewal of price regulation, and the granting of the right to import medicines to hospital pharmacies should improve and make the pharmaceutical market more transparent.
According to Äripäev, Estonia's top pharmaceutical wholesalers are profiting from secret deals with drugmakers, earning millions of euros annually. Medicine prices are raised due to match-fixing, hurting the health insurance fund and the patient. Wholesalers deny hidden deals.
Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets (SDE) has released Raivo Küüt from his position as undersecretary for population and civil society, at the Ministry of the Interior, at Küüt's own request.
The Viru bus terminal in central Tallinn is to be closed to bus traffic due to paving work next Monday and Tuesday, Tallinn city government says.
Even though all ministries and agencies employ a number of communication and public relations specialists, they also procure services from the outside, with millions spent each year on campaigns and other types of PR.
At present, anyone being made unemployed in Estonia is due to receive both unemployment insurance benefits and an unemployment allowance.
Estonia marked 20 years as a member of both the European Union and NATO on May 1.
April's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rise represented a three-year low, state agency Statistics Estonia says.
A tram derailed in central Tallinn on Tuesday afternoon, leading to a disruption in service, daily Postimees reports.
A significant number of teachers are not planning to take required Estonian language exams, yet recruiting replacements, particularly in the eastern town of Narva, is not a straightforward matter, the education ministry says.
The performance of the current Reform-SDE-Eesti 200 coalition is rated as "poor" by two-thirds of respondents to a recent survey. At the same time, the Reform Party has slightly pulled ahead of the opposition Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), according to the same survey.
Veteran Estonian midfielder Konstantin Vassiljev has given up the FC Flora captain's armband, ERR's Sport portal reports.
The cold spring continues this week, with chilly mornings remaining through to the end of the work week, when it will get milder.