Egert Rünne: Human rights in a changed Estonia
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Under the current populist government, the human rights have started to deteriorate in Estonia – and everyone must ask whether they have done enough to stand up for those rights, writes Egert Rünne, the executive director of the Estonian Human Rights Centre.
The Estonian version of this article was published in ERR.
Everyone has human rights that must be protected by states and other people and this has been a key message of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights already for 72 years. The importance of the Universal Declaration as a defender of everyone’s human rights is the reason why Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on 10 December.
On Wednesday, the Riigikogu passed a law amendment exempting e-cigarette liquids from excise duty until the end of 2022.
Tarmo Kruusimäe, chairman of the Riigikogu s smoke-free Estonia support group, said that this amendment will help save the health of the Estonian people. From June 1, 2018, an extremely high excise duty on e-cigarette liquids came into force in Estonia, as a result of which the black market and cross-border trade flourished. By suspending the collection of excise duties for two years, we are giving traders the opportunity to lower the prices of e-liquid products, Kruusimäe said.
According to him, a break in excise duty payment provides an opportunity to change the habits of consumers by redirecting them back to legal, laboratory-tested products.
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0 >Chairman of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas at the riigikogu sitting on Monday, December 14. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
Support for the opposition Reform Party has dropped below 30 percent, marking the lowest level for the party after the 2019 general elections, it appears from the results of a survey commissioned by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and carried out by pollster Norstat Eesti AS.
The latest results show that the Reform Party is supported by 29.2 percent, the senior partner in the government coalition Center Party by 21.6 percent and the non-parliamentary Estonia 200 by 15.8 percent of voting-age citizens.
The latest aggregate results reflect the outcomes of polls taken between November 17 and December 14, in which altogether 4,000 voting-age citizens of Estonia were interviewed.
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