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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.