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TALLINN - The spread of digital technologies into all areas of life has been accompanied by a global surge in the volume of data by economies an...

Compiling data on Estonian society is leading to challenges in both public and private sectors, particularly with regard to bottlenecks caused by differing standards across different data collection points, and access restrictions to information being set too readily, a Riigikogu think-tank says.

In three to five years' time, choices made now about higher education funding will affect those children and young people currently in secondary education. Their parents, who are an important target group in the upcoming elections, will also certainly be affected, writes Toomas Asser, rector of the University of Tartu.

Estonian businesses which depend on goods and raw materials imported from Russia and Belarus need to understand the risks and find new suppliers, a report by the Riigikogu's Foresight Center shows. If these imports completely stop it will cost businesses €860 million.

If 30,000 war refugees from Ukraine were to remain permanently living in Estonia, this would delay the country's demographic decline by more than 20 years, it appears from a new report recently released by the Foresight Center, a think tank at the Riigikogu.

Estonia's residents underestimate the likelihood of needing long-term care after they retired, a report by the Riigikogu's Foresight Center shows.

TALLINN - Estonia has the lowest property taxes in the European Union, it appears from a short report by the parliament's Foresight Center.

Estonia has the lowest property takes in the European Union, a short report by the Riigikogu Foresight Center reveals. Hiking property tax rates to the European average would yield over €500 million for the state budget in Estonia.

Close to 56,000 people work through digital platforms in Estonia every week and over 160,000 people have engaged in platform work at least once over the past year, it appears from the results of a study by the Estonian parliaments Foresight Center to be published on Wednesday. "Work brokered by digital platforms is widely used in Estonia, but it is mainly done as additional work," expert of the Foresight Center Johanna Vallistu said. "The number of people who occasionally take on platform work ...

The use of a personal passenger car for commuting has nearly doubled in Estonia over the past 20 years and transport costs account for 14 percent of peoples total expenditure, a report to be published by the Estonian Foresight Center last week shows. "Using a private car has grown first and foremost at the expense of traveling by public transport and on foot," Foresight Center expert Uku Varblane said. "Estonia has thus risen to among the most car-centered states in the European Union in a shor...