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Sajad põllumehed, toidutootjad, maaettevõtjad igast Eestimaa nurgast voorisid neljapäeva õhtul Viljandisse Ugala teatrisse, et tähistada Põllumajandus-Kaubanduskoja 25. sünnipäeva.
President Kersti Kaljulaid's decision Thursday to strip former cross-country ski star Andrus Veerpalu of his two state decorations brings the total number of individuals so divested of their awards to fourteen. President Kaljulaid has recalled a total of four state awards from recipients in her tenure so far. Toomas Hendrik Ilves took away the remaining 10, during his two-term stint as president, 2006-2016. Ilves' predecessors, Arnold Rüütel and, before him, Lennart Meri, doled out state awards perhaps more prolifically, and many of those who have been demoted in this way – including Andr...
On Monday and Tuesday, social media was awash with messages of support for Estonia's first female prime minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) and her (almost) gender-balanced government. ERR's Estonian portal compared the number of men and women in previous coalitions. Kallas' government, which was sworn in on Tuesday, has seven female ministers and eight male ministers, meaning women make up 46.67 percent of ministerial roles in government - the highest proportion for a government in independent Estonia's history. In Kallas' new coalition, women hold the positions of prime minister, justice, foreign...
( TALLINN) - Estonia on Thursday became the latest eurozone member to approve taking part in the EU's European Financial Stability Facility, as lawmakers voted 59-18 in favour despite vocal opposition. The solid majority came despite heated debate in the Baltic nation's chamber, and made Estonia the 13th of the eurozone's 17 members to approve new powers for the the 440-billion-euro ($590 billion) EFSF. All 17 eurozone nations have to sign off on the EFSF, created in the face of the currency bloc's debt crisis, where Greece is in the eye of the storm. Germany and Cyprus had voted earlier Thu...